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maketh Oath that about ½ part nine
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went to a house No. 2 Hand Court Phillip
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Lane that the people of the home being apprehensive
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the deced had done something to himself Dept. and one
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who lodges in the Ground Floor went to the door
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of the one pair of Stairs Room of said house. that they
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called for the deced but receiving no answer they house
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the head parts of a Bedstead in the Room in his Shirt that
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Leaves quite Lead and Cold.
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Sworn the 14th day of
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July 1792 before me}
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maketh Oath that he hath known the deced Thomas
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Smith between eight and nine years. that the deced has lodged in
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a year & an half that the deced buried his Wife about a
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twelve Month ago since which time Dept. has observed
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the deced very dull and Melancholy-that appeared often
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to mumble and talk to himself and sometimes when he
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has been talking to may one would burst out
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crying and
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express much grief at the loss of his Wife-that Dept.
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saw the deced about nine O Clock the Night before last that
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he came into Dept. Room and sayed he had been shaking
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hands with ever so many Devils. real Devils. that he
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locked very wild and Dept. really thought then that the
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deced was delirious-that the deced used to In
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very
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