Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st September 1747 - 13th June 1803

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Image 386 of 63229th June 1785


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint John Wapping in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty ninth Day of June in the Twenty fifth 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
George Addison< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Goater< no role > , George Creighton< no role > , John Francis< no role > , Thomas Coe< no role > , John Meers< no role > , Richard Ounse< no role >
Joseph Meers< no role > , Jonathan Thompson< no role > , Hector Goodfellow< no role > Mark Snellgrove, Griffin
Boardman William Chapman< no role > and William Johnson< 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 George Addison< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said George Addison< no role > on the Twenty sixth Day
of June in the Year aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell into the
River Thames at a Place called The Dung Wharf in the Parish and County aforesaid
and was in the Waters thereof then and there suffocated and drowned. Of which said Suffocation
and Drowning he the said George Addison< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said George Addison< no role > in manner and by the means
aforesaid accidentally, casually and by Misfortune come to his Death

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




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