MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet
of Poplar and Blackwell in the parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the Fourteenth Day of August in the twenty second Year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third , by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before Thomas Phillips< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
a Negro Man called Samuel Wright< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Randall< no role > , John Porter< no role > , John Fenwick< no role > , Thomas Carpenter< no role > , Archibald Ramage< no role > ,
John Hagen< no role > , Robert Bath, John Hill< no role > , John Worrall< no role > , Bridge Turner< no role > , James Olive< no role > ,
George Honeyford< no role > , and Samuel Ewen< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being and there duly
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
said Negro Man called Samuel Wright< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, Say, That The said Negro Man called Samuel Wright< no role >
on the Seventh Day of August in the year aforesaid being in an Open Boat on the
River Thames with divers other Persons near Blackwall Yard in the Hamlet aforesaid
in the Parish and County aforesaid It so happened That the said Boat then and there
accidentally casually and by Misfortune overset and sunk into The River aforesaid By
Means Whereof he the said Negro Man called Samuel Wright< no role > was in the Waters of
the said Rivers aforesaid there suffocated and Drowned Of which said Suffocation and Drowning
[..] called Samuel Wright< no role > then [..] Jurors of
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Randall< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
above written

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner

William Randall< no role > [mark] Foreman