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and there lying Dead
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severally make Oath and say that about ½ past
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One OClock in the Afternoon of Friday last being in a Boat
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off Pickle herring Stairs they heard some Sailors on board
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some Vessels laying off said Stairs say there was a Drowned
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made a Rope fast to him and to used him on Shore from
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whence he was conveyed up to the Bone house of said
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Parish of Saint John That the found on the deceased a
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Pocket Book with various papers in it and a Card where on
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was Wrote Mr. Bruce Mair at Mr. Frobes No.6 Rao
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London in his knees of his Breeches a
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Shoe Backles and in his right hand Breeches Pocket
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a Green Silk purse containing an half Gunine
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Gold and
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two Six pences and in his Waistcoat Pocket six Copper
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half pence That they examined the body of the
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that there were no marks of violence whatever about him
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Sworn the 5th. day of October 1789
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before me}
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T.Shelton Corr.
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upon his Oath a further sayeth that
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on Friday Evening last he went to House No.6 Rackett Court
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found on the deceased That he there saw a Young Woman
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who sayed she was Mr. Forbes Daughter that he asked he if
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Mr.
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lived there she answered and asked
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Dept. if he had heard of any Accident when Dept told her
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