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Informations taken this Twenty fifth day
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of June 1791 at the
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Samuel
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the Deced lodged at this Dept. House and came
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Henry
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Francis
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the Deced's Bed fellow, and the Deced drank
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two Penny worth of Gin and Water and they both went
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to Bed together, in great friendship and Harmony
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Says that this Morning about forty Minutes after
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one, this Dept. was an awaked by People talking above
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Stairs and found that the Deced was dead, by
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the Bursting of a Vessel as Dept. was informed
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the Deced having vomited a great deal of Blood
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upon the Floor, Says that he fetched a
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who Examined the Deced and said that a
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Blood Vessel with in him burst which he believes
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to be the cause of Deced's death.
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at Mr. Langford
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, on his Oath saith That a little
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before Ten o'Clock last Night he heard the Deced
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and
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Henry Francis
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go up Stairs to Bed together
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appearing from their talk to be in Friendship
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nor did the ever know them to have any Quarrel
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Says that between One & two o'Clock this Morning
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Dept. was called up by John (whose Sername
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he does not know) who said that one of the
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Men above Stairs was dying upon which
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he went up to the Deced, who died
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immediately upon Dept. taking hold of his Hand
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Deced had vomited as Dept. was informed, and
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Dept. believes that he died in consequence of
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Bursting a Vessel within him
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