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the Door and the deced alive in Bed, who complaind
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he was very bad, and Dept. gave him some drink
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says they all assisted (except the Father) in taking
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the deced out of Bed and making the same, says
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the Father was unwilling, saying the deced did not
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know what be would, for that he had done it
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himself, but the bed had not been made. says She
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and the other two Women Stayed by the deced some
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time, says the deced told Dept. that his Father
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had thrown him out of Bed and into it again three
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or four times, says she is positive he was then
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sensible but
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the deced did not charge his Father
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with doing him any Injury by throwing him out &
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into the Bed, nor did Deponent see any Bruises then
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about the deced. says deced desired Deponent not to
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leave him and she continued with him for a quarter of an
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hour after, and Dept. and the Women went down
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together, but before she went down Stairs, the deced asked
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who laid with
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your Boy (meaning as Dept. understood
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an apprentice of her Husband's) to which she replyed
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why did be ask that Question, and he answered he
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should be glad to lay along with him; to which she
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said it would be inconvient, and she did not know
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where be could lay better than
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th his Father, says
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he told Deponent that his Father would Smother him
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to which Dept. said God forbid Matt., and be replyed
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he will, he will, says deced spoke so low the in Sure
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nobody in the Room could hear him besides Dept.
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who was close to the deced and attentive to his discourse
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says upon her going away he desired she would not leave
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him,
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that when the came down Stair she immediately
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informed her Sister and Mr. Chambers one of the Women
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who went with dept. in to deceds Room, what the deced
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had said to her. says that about eleven that Night the
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sent
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James Kentish
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Thomas House
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two of her
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Husbands apprentices to see how the deced did,
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that they
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returned in about a quarter of an hour, and acquainted
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dept. that deced was very bad and sweating by the Bed Cloaths
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being put too much over his Face, and that deced begged
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of them to remove them,
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but the
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which they did, and
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the Father returned them again as they were before
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the deceds Complaint, saying he did not know
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what he would be at, says She did not go up again
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to deced till between twelve and one o' Clock the
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Next Morning, when she heard Somebody come in
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doors when it proved to be Mr. Moore with a lighted
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Candle in his Hand, altho' she had been informed
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before by the said apprentices that they left him
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when they came down Stairs in Bed with his Son
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the deced, says She immediately took a Candle and
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followed Mr. Moore up stairs to his Room that before he
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opened the Door She asked him how his Son did,
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he said he was well enough, she asked him what
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he meant by him, he replyed he was very happy,
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she asked him there if he was dead, and he answered
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he was says she stood at the Room door but did not go in
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and after Sending for her Sister
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Deponent her
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Sister and the two Apprentices went into the Room
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and discovered the deced
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in the Middle of the Bed
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folded up in the Bed Cloaths viz: two Blankets and a Quilt entirely covered that they were
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some minutes before they could get him out and
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on taking deced out they observed the right Side of
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his Face near the right Temple his right Shoulder and right Hip bruised
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but no Cuts wounds or Blood says the deceds face
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did not appear to be black nor did be appear
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black about the throat or else where except where they saw
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the Bruised. Says that Dept. and her Sister helped to
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lay the deced strait, says they continued in the
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Room till the two Women who lodged in the House
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Mrs Chamber and Mrs Oker house came into the
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Room and by their Assistance Dept. and her Sister
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removed the Feather bed, and laid the deced upon
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the sacking, by this time she believes it might be
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two o' Clock, says the Father was all the while in
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the Room, says She & her Sister washed the deced and
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her Husband coming home at the above time she
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prevailed on him to go up Stairs and see the Corpse
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that on her Husbands observing the Bruised he asked
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