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about two years-that Dept. saw the deced on board the said
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Vessel about two OClock in the afternoon of Thursday last
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in cleaning the Deck of the Vessel Dept. then went to Change
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the Verger he heard something fall into the trader that on going
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Sworn this 24th: day of October 1792
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John's Taylor
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