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here lying dead.
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about two years that he was about Nine Years of age that
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between eleven & twelve yesterday Morning the deced was in a
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deced a Broom & a Rovel & told him to take them to Mr Raby's
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outer mort from the Wharf & told him to mind how he went
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along there being two other Craft within which the deced
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had to pass over Dept. pushed the Skiff a little was from
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Dept assisted in bringing him to the Dyers Arms that he appeared
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Sworn this 24th. day of December
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1795 before me}
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