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Informations of Witnesses taken this
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2 day of July 1795
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has done between five and six Years last past
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that his Master had been at the said Hotel ever
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two or three Month ago he
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and it was some
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times (as this Deponent was informed) before he
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recovered his senses, that during these last
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five Weeks he has been very amount tell and low
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spirited and walking about in his Room sighing,
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