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Informations taken this Twenty
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Ninth day of December 1781 at the
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dead in the said Parish Liberty and
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at the Sign of the Red Lyon
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on his Oath saith That
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the Deced lived Servant
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with this Dept. about four Months last past
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was a very Sober and honest Person, Says
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that yesterday about four o'Clock in the Afternoon
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Dept. went out leaving the Deced in his
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House about her Business Says that he
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returned home about
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o'Clock last
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Night and soon Missed the Deced. That
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on asking where she was Mrs. Gurney
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answered that she was backward crying
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as usual That a little after Mrs. Gurney
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went to the Kitchen backwards and calling
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the Deced and having no answer was
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afraid that something was a
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, upon
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which Dept. went to the Kitchen Door which
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he found Locked and the Key in the Lock on the
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inside of the Door, that he endeavoured to
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open the Door and that some Person with a
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Poker forced it open, upon which he went
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into the Kitchen and saw the Deced hanging
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by a Silk Handkerchief, which was tied to
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the bottom barr of the Jack there and about
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her Neck, Says that with his Knife he cut
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the
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