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the Deced has been Missing about nine Weeks, and
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. and observed no Marks
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Elizabeth Woodman
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at No. 5 in
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Cooper's Street
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. on her Oath saith, That
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Tufton the Deced came home to his Wife who
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Mileanier in
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Place and was very ill with
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stayed with his Wife until Saturday Afternoon the
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Twenty sixth of Novr. as Dept. thinks, where he went
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away saying that he would go for a Letter to go to the
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Hospital, being than much disturbed in his Mind,
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taken out of the Canal
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She went there and saw the Body of
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William Tufton
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who appeared to have been a long time Drowned
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but observed no Marks of violence upon the Deced.
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Elizabeth Woodman
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her Mark
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Severally Sworn the Day Year
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& Place abovementioned
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before me
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Tho. Prickard
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