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Depositions of Witnesses taken at the
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Parish of Saint John within the Town and
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of the three Tuns Tosley street
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maketh Oath that he hath known the deced
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between seven or eight Months-that
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on Tuesday the 1st day of November last Dept.
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deced having been with some other persons amongst
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whom was the deceds Wife on board of the Tryal
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Sloop then laying in the
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Down Stairs & that Dept. the deced and three Lads
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belonging to said Sloop went on Shore to Depts. house
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in order to get some Beer and other necessarys the
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Master of the said Sloop wished them to go for-that
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on their Return to the said Vessel deced, Dept. and
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two of said Lads the other having been left behind
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being then in a Ssmall Boat belonging to said Vessel
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standing on the
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give some Knives and Forks they had brought
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from Depts. house to Depts. Wife but the Boat not
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being near enough he could not reach that he
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turned himself round with his back towards the
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said Vessel in order to get the Boat neares but the
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tide then running very strong forced the Boat
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fell between the Boat and the Vessel into the Water
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Sworn the 8 Decer 1789 before me
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T. Shelton Corr.
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