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1772 being at Work repairing the Filing in the Gutter of
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the Garretts of the Dwelling House of Mr.
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it so happened that he accidentally casually and by Misfortune
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fell from the said Gutter into the Street by means whereof
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he Received a Violent and Mortal Wound Fracture and
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Concussion on his Head and Beam; of which he than and
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there instantly Died. And so the Jurors on their Oath say
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in manner and by the means
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aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune came
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to his Death and not otherwise. Witness the hand of
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the Foreman on behalf of himself and the rest of the
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Jurors this 3d, day of August 1772.
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