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Middlesex
to wit}


Informations of Witnesses severally
Taken and Acknowledged the Third day of June
in the Twenty fourth Year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the Third King of
Great Britain Etc. lot the House of Thomas
Quantill known by the Sign of the White
Hart in the Parish of Tottenham in the
said County of Middlesex before Thomas Phillip< no role > 's
One of the Coroners for the said County on
view of the Body of a new born Female Child
then and there lying Dead as follow (to wit)

George Francis< no role > Tyson of Tottenham
Gentleman Saith That on Tuesday last
he was fishing in a Pond in a Field of
his Fathers at the Moat house at
Tottenham Called the Pidgeon Field Pond
And found the above mentioned Child
floating in the Pond amongst some
chick, weedThat it Appeared to
Informant to have received a Blow over
one of its Eyes but which in Particular
Informant does not Recollect
That it was quite nakedSaith That
he got it out and gave notice of the Affair
to Mr. Alderman Townsend
Saith he hath no Reason to Suspect any Person
in that Neighbourhood to be the Mother of the Child

George Francis< no role > Tyson




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