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for these five Weeks
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hash-that he complained very much of a violent pain
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in his head-that sometime peused to get up at Seven
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O Clock in the Morning at other times the lay a Bed till
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12 or One O Clock in the day-that he often cryed out
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with a violent pain in his Stomach and med to say
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something was tearing him to pieces-that when the
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deced was taken with those pains he used often to be
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imensible and used to talk very wildly-saying that
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the sheriffis Officers were coming to take all his
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desiring Dept. to left the Bed up that he might lay
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on the Matrass and that Dept. mights mother him
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Friends of the deced persuaded the deced to go out
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that the deced appeared very much alarmed and sayed
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he was afraid for fear the Sheriffs Officers would come
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and take his property and his po
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that there were no sheriffs Officers about the place Dept.
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thinks the deced was in very good circumstance but
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