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now here lying Dead
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between five and six weeks that he was
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also a Prisoner in the said Gaol that the has been in the
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Sick Ward where Dept. about five Days very ill with
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a Fever that he continued to get worse daily until
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Monday Evening last when he departed this Life
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that he was attended by the Surgeon of the Gaol
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Sworn this 24th: day of December 1792
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