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on her Oath saith, that on Wednesday
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Night the Deced, (who was permitted to lye in her
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much dejected, and desired Deponent to lend her six pence
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some Breakfast the next Morning Deced being then very uneasy after which Deced
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went upstairs, Says that about an hour after she sent her little Girl
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one pair of Stairs
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and nobody Answering, and finding the Door of the
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Deced's room locked, Deponent suspected that the
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Deced had made away with herself, and sent up
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some Persons to break open the Door. Says that Mrs.
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Jones her lodger some time after came down Stairs
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and informed Deponent that after breaking open
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the Door they found the Deced hanging there but Dept. did not go up Says
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that the Deced had been with Mrs. Sutton a Lodger of
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the Deponent's for six months last past, that she
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used frequently to be in Liquor and often repeated
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Severally Sworn the Day
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Year & Place abovementioned
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