City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1795 - 28th December 1795

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Information of Witness taken this
7th. day of March 1795 in the Parish of
St James Westmr. at the House of Elizth
Flint
< no role > the Sign of the Kings Arms in
Poland Street in the Liberty aforesaid
to few Anthy Gell< no role > His Majesty's
Coroner in the City & Liberty touching
the Death of Thomas Hackett< no role > then and
there lying dead as follow,
to witt.

Elizth Flint< no role > of the Kings Arms Victualler being
sworn deponth that the deceased had resided at
Quebec and Charles Town in America for twenty
years and had returned from thence three months
ago and in a low melancholly state aforesaid
rather recovered about a week ago but since
that relapsed and seemed on the Saturday
last to be much worse that at nine O'Clock
yesterday morning whom this Deponent was going
to breakfast tshe enquired of one of her four
where his Uncle was and he said that he got up
about seven O'clock in the morning where upon she
[..] told him to up stairs and desire his Uncle to come
down to Breakfast and when he went up Stairs




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