MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The
Parish of Saint Paul Shadwell in the County of
Middlesex , the Sixth Day of December in the Twenty third 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 Negroe Man unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Whittington< no role > Christian Awe< no role > , James Pownceby< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , Miles Dudley< no role > , Thomas
Hampshire , John Prior< no role > , Mark Mc Daniel< no role > , Anthony Carlatte< no role > , John Pownceby< no role > This name instance is in a workspace.
Robert Grieg< no role > , George Gibbons< no role > , William Elliot< no role > and Samuel Polston< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
said Negroe Man unknown came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Negroe Man unknown on the Fifth
Day of November in the year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in the
River Thames at Shadwell Dock in the Parish and County aforesaid That the said
Negroe Man unknown had not any Marks of Violence appearence about him
and how or by what Means he became drowned and suffocated no Evidence doth appear
to the said Jurors

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Whitington< 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
John Whitington [mark] Foreman