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<p n="1690">LondonDepositions of Witnesses taken at London<lb></lb>
that is to say at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo1618">Parish of Allhallows</rs>
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the Less in the Ward of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo1619">Dowgate</rs>
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in London<lb></lb>
aforesaid this <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65008_date393">24th. day of December 1795</rs>
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on view of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n1690-1">John Winter</rs>
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now<lb></lb>
here lying dead.</p>
<p n="1691"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n1691-1">John Strong</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo1620">No.</rs>
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2 Old <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo1621">Bermondsey</rs>
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Street <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo1622">Southwark</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65008_occ523">Lighterman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
maketh Oath that he hath known the <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65008_occ524">deced</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n1691-2">Joseph Winter</rs>
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<lb></lb>
about two years that he was about Nine Years of age that<lb></lb>
between eleven & twelve yesterday Morning the deced was in a<lb></lb>
Skiff with dept. alongside some Craft at <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo1623">Dowgate Wharf</rs>
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Dept gave the<lb></lb>
deced a Broom & a Rovel & told him to take them to Mr Raby's<lb></lb>
at the Wharf Dept. put<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
deced into a Craft that lay<lb></lb>
outer mort from the Wharf & told him to mind how he went<lb></lb>
along there being two other Craft within which the deced<lb></lb>
had to pass over Dept. pushed the Skiff a little was from<lb></lb>
the outermost Craft and in a very little time heard something<lb></lb>
squarkDept. went to the Wharf and seeing a Brown in the<lb></lb>
Water & looking about<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
missing the deced he suspected<lb></lb>
he had fallen overboard Dept gave the alarm in about a<lb></lb>
Master of an hour the deced was taken out of the Water and<lb></lb>
Dept assisted in bringing him to the Dyers Arms that he appeared<lb></lb>
quite dead that<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
means were tried to restore the deced but<lb></lb>
without effect.</p>
<p n="1692">Sworn this 24th. day of December<lb></lb>
1795 before me}</p>
<p n="1693"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n1693-1">John Strong</rs>
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