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Informations of Witnesses taken at the precinct
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on view of
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the body of a male infant there lying
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dead.
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maketh oath that he has just now seen and
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examined the body of the deced. Says it is a Male infant
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thereby born and is full grown. That the back part of
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it head is much discoloured & appears as if
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some
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act of violence had been committed upon it, or such
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discolouration & appearance might he occasioned by the
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p
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which has taken place in the body of the Child
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so by accident whilst the Child was in the River
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Sworn the 23d. day of July 1799
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before me T. Shelton Corr.}
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Samuel Churchill
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to Mr. Bodicoate maketh oath that yesterday afternoon
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Dept saw the body of the deced infant lying in the River
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between some legs of Timber. Says it was tied up in
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