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Westmr</rs>
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, on the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1677">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Twentieth<lb></lb>
day of August 1791 at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1678">Parish of St<lb></lb>
George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1679">Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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, in the County of<lb></lb>
Midsex upon an Inquisition<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1323-1">William Buckmire</rs>
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dead</rs>
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in the said Parish Liberty County</p>
<p n="1324"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1324-1">James Port</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1296">Lodger</rs>
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at W. 23. Great<lb></lb>
Poultney Street <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1680">St James</rs>
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on his Oath<lb></lb>
saith that on Wednesday<obscured></obscured>
Aug. 17th.<lb></lb>
the Afternoon the Deced<obscured></obscured>
Buch<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
this Dept. and two other Shopman agreed<lb></lb>
to go to Wash themselves in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1681">Serpentine<lb></lb>
River</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1682">Hyde Park</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1683">Parish of St<lb></lb>
George</rs>
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H<obscured></obscured>
Square Says that at Six<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
they all went together into Hyde Park<lb></lb>
and into the Serpentine River, Says<lb></lb>
that the Deced swom almost across the<lb></lb>
River when the People on Shore<lb></lb>
gave the Alarm of a Man being<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
and Dept. saw the Deced Sui<obscured></obscured>
and<lb></lb>
went towards him, Says that a Man<lb></lb>
Dived soure time but could not they felt<lb></lb>
the Deced, but brought him out the<lb></lb>
Yesterday as Dept. was informed says<lb></lb>
that there was no Person in the Water<lb></lb>
near the Deced when he<obscured></obscured>
and<lb></lb>
believes it to be merely accidental</p>
<p n="1325">Sworn the Day Year<lb></lb>
& Place abovementioned<lb></lb>
before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1325-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1298">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="1326"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1326-1">James Porteon</rs>
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