City & Liberty of Westmr .
in the County of Middlesex }

Informations taken this Eighteenth day
of January 1765 at the Parish of St. John
the Evangelist within the City & Liberty of
Westmr. in the County of Middlesex on an
Inquisition taken on View of the Body
of Samuel Syar lying Dead in the said
Parish City Liberty and County.

David Ayr< no role > a Corporal in Colonel Sorell Company in the
Second Regiment of Foot Guards on his Oath saith that Samuel
Syar< no role > the Deced was a Soldier in the same Company, That the
Deced was at the Sign of the Adam and Eve in the Petty France
Westmr. on Wednesday Evening last, Says that the Deced
drunk a good deal of Bear there, and would have had
more but was refused by Mrs. King, the Landlady, Saying
that he was either in Liquor, or in one of his crazy
Humours Says that the Deced came from thence with Dept.
before ten O Clock that Evening, but Deced refused to go
to his Lodgings and left the Dept. Says that he soon after
found Deced at the Bull Head , near the Broad Way Chapel
drinking a Glass of Geneva, Says that the Deced came
out from thence with Dept. and refused again to go to
his Lodging the pressed by Dept. to go, Says that Deced
got look from Dept. and run away towards Tothill Fields and Deponent could
not overtake him, Deponent says that he was yesterday
at the Tilt Yard about half an hour after two o Clock
when a Soldier came there and informed the Paymaster
that a Soldier belonging to the Second Regiment lay
Drowned on Mill Bank, Says that Serjeant Waller
was sent immediately to see if he knew him, says
that the Serjeant non returned and informed Dept.
that it was Samuel Syar the Deced, Says that he came
afterwards to Mill Bank and saw the Deced lying
upon his Back on the Shore on Mill Bank in the
Parish of St. John the Evangelist Westmr. Says that the
Deced was Dead and appeared to have been Drowned, Says
that he observed a Scar upon the Deced; Nose, and the
Skin rubbed off his Nuckles, but that he observed no Marks
of Violence on the Deed's Body,Deptsay that theDead