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1766 at the Parish of
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lying Dead in the
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said Parish City Liberty and County.
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Abraham Whalley Humphreys
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to the Westmr. Hospital in the Parish of St. Margaret, and that
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Twenty second day of January last Says that he Examined the Deft.
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on the Twenty Third and found no external Marks of Violence
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on the deced, but the Deced complained of very great pain
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in the Per
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proper care was taken of the Deced, but
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he continued to
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grow worse to the time of his Death, which happened
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last Night about ten o'Clock. And this Dept. says that
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the Deced informed him that he had reced a Kick from
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an Irish Chairman near his Testicles which this
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Dept. believes to be the Cause of Death.
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Elizabeth Howard
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Mr. Wheelers a Baker in
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on her Oath saith, that
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on the Seventh day of January last, the Deced went from
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his Lodgings about Seven o'Clock, to spend the Evening with
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some Friends at the
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Says that the Deced did not return hence to Dept. until about
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Nine o'Clock in the Evening of the Eighth day of January
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when he informed Deponent, "That he stand with his
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Tavern until five o'Clock
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in the
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and that four Ir
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Chairman
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"whose names he knew not that were standing there, said to Deced, My Noble Singing Master
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"Howard, will you treat us with a Pot of Purl, to which he
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"answered that had no halfpence, upon which the Chairman
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