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Image 97 of 68117th July 1786


Middlesex


Informations of Witness Severally takens and
acknowledged on the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King touching
the Death of John Carpenter< no role > at the Dwelling
House of John Oliver< no role > known by the Sign of the
The Black Bull in the Parish of Saint John Hackney
in the County of Middlesex on Mondaythe Seventeenth
Day of July in the twenty sixth Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third before me
William Wilson< no role > one of his Majestys Coroners for the said
County on an Inquisition then and there taken on View of the
Body of the said John Carpenter< no role >
then and there lying dead as follow to wit

William Harting< no role > Servant to Ann Gibbs< no role > , Widow , of the
White Hart Brewhouse Kings land Road upon his oath
Saith That on Thursday last between eleven and twelve
o'Clock in the forenoon the deceased who was Deponents
Fellow Servant and Deponent had been with some
Beer to Shack le well and were returning along the Road
to the Brew house the deceased driving his Horses in
the Dray on the proper side of it and Deponent walking
close behind it and a Timber Carriage or Gig with
Two Wheels and Timber fired to it drawn by Three
Horses was following drove by a Man whose Name
Deponent is informed in John Hubbs< no role >
And who was also on the proper side of his Horses and
just as deceased came opposite The Black Bull at
things land aforesaid he stopped his Horses upon which
Stubbs said "Damn you what do you stop there for" the
deceased said "I must stop here"Stubbs "said Damn
you soul but I will pull you wheel off then." the




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