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on his
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the Deced
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that She had Complaints in her Head and Stomack, during
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three of the Deced's Children died of the Small pox, That the
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has been Melancholy and low Spiretted since that time and
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often complained to Deponent of an Uneasmiss of Mind.
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in her Senses.
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Robt Hallifax
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on his Oath
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saith, That last Night about ten o'Clock Deponents Wife came
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home with the Deced's Son, a Boy, when Dep
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said Wife desired
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him to go with the Boy to Deced's Lodging in a passage leading to Naylors Yard out of
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Silver Street, Says that he went there an found the Deced's room
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of the Room, near the Door, Says that he found the Key there and
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