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<p n="853"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo775">City & Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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in the County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo776">Midsex</rs>
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Informations taken this fifteenth day of April 1766<lb></lb>
at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo777">Parish of St. James</rs>
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within the Liberty of Westmr. in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo778">County of Middlesex</rs>
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on an Inquisition taken on View of<lb></lb>
the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n853-1">John Whitehead</rs>
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an Infant lying Dead in<lb></lb>
the said Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="854">Mary the Wife of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n854-1">John Whitehead</rs>
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of Kemps Court in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo779">Parish of St. James</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65206_occ270">Coachmaker</rs>
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on her Oath saith, that she is Mother<lb></lb>
to the Deced, and that on Sunday last about Six o'Clock in the<lb></lb>
Afternoon Dept. was making her Bed in her inner Room on the<lb></lb>
First Floor in the Dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n854-2">Henry Jackson</rs>
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with upon she loge Says that<lb></lb>
the Deced was playing in the Adjoining Room, and no other<lb></lb>
Person with him in that Roger Says, that Mrs. Morgan who lives on the<lb></lb>
opposite side of the said Court sereamed out, upon which Dept.<lb></lb>
looked round, and missing the Deced, ran down Stairs and<lb></lb>
found the Deced lying upon the Ground in the<del>Ground</del>
said Court<lb></lb>
Speechless, Says that she took him up, and found him Bleeding<lb></lb>
at his Month and Nose, Says that Mr. Williams an <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65206_occ271">Apothecary</rs>
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<lb></lb>
was called who Examined the Deced and said that his Skull<lb></lb>
was fractured on the left side of his Head, which Dept believes<lb></lb>
to be the cause of the Deced's Death, and says that the Deced<lb></lb>
accidentally fell out of and thro' the Window of the Room<lb></lb>
abovementioned and that Deced died about half an hour<lb></lb>
after Eleven o'Clock on Sunday Night, the 13th day of this Instant<lb></lb>
April.</p>
<p n="855">Sworn the Day Year & Place<lb></lb>
abovementioned, before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n855-1">Thos. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65206_occ272">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="856">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n856-1">Mary Whitehead</rs>
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<p n="857">Mrs. Morgan<lb></lb>
Mrs. Jackson</p>
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