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and prosecutor of the above prisoner maketh oath that at the last Session
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Name and Character of
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request put off until the present session and this Deponent further saith
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the he is informed and believes that the said
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the Deponent cannot safely proceed to true therein and this Deponent
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come to Tour with this Deponent and that on their way upon the Road
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last thereby that this Deponent left him in the care of Surgeon at Publick
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Sworn the 8th. July 1784 at the
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