Middlesex
(To wit)}

An Inquisition indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King at the Parish
of Saint Ann in the County of
Middlesex , the sixth Day of September 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 Hans
Ericksonthen and there lying dead upon the Oath of John Drem, Thomas
Eddleston, Thomas Cook< no role > , Thomas Harding< no role > Conningham, Henry Bradley< no role > Nathaniel Dale< no role >
John Tudsberry< no role > , John Shelton< no role > , Thomas Scott< no role > Stephen Croskwy< no role > , John Milnes< no role > , William
Meredith, Thomas Underhill< no role > Howard, Robert Donsbery< no role > , William Farthing< no role > and John Spurrier< 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 Hans Erickson< no role > came to his Death do upon their Oath say That
the said Hans Erickson< no role > on the Thirty first Day of August in the Year aforesaid being on Board a
Lighter to the said Jurors unknown then lying in the River Thames at Lime house Hole in
the Hamlet of Poplar and Blackwall in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County aforesaid
and Endeavouring to get out the said Lighter It so happened That he the said Hans Erickson< no role > then
and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell into the said River and was in the
Waters thereof then and there suffocated and drowned. Of which said Suffocation and Drowning
he the said Hans Erickson< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid
Do say that the said Hans Erickson< no role > in manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually
and by misfortune came to his Death

In Witness whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Drom
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 Drom [mark] Foreman