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Wednesday Morning about Eight o'Clock
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(who lodge on the Second Floor
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in the same House.) came into Dept. Room
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leaving the Deced an Infant about two
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Years & an half old, ten her own Room,
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Says tht in about there Minutes they
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heard the Deced cry out and Mrs. Lucas
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went up immediately unto her own Room
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and Screamed out, upon which Dept.
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went up and saw the deced's Cloaths
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on Fire and the Child very much burnt
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in all Parts of his Body Says that two
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apothcearys were fetched who endeavoured
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to Assist the Deced and to do what they
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thought necessary but Deced was so much
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brunt that it died, the same day between
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Twelve and One o'Clock and Dept. says that
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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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