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<p n="789"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo882">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo883">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Eighth day of July<lb></lb>
1776 at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo884">Parish of St. Martin in the Fields</rs>
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within<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo885">Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo886">County of Middlesex</rs>
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touching<lb></lb>
the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n789-1">Matthew Davies</rs>
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lying dead in the said<lb></lb>
Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="790"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n790-1">Francis Easter</rs>
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brook a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65216_occ241">Soldier</rs>
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on his Oath saith<lb></lb>
That he works as a Coal Heaver at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo887">the Adelphi</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Wharf in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo888">Parish of St. Martin in the Fields</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
That he went on Board one of the Lighters there<lb></lb>
Yesterday Afternoon about Six o'Clock, that about Nine o'Clock Mr. Davies<lb></lb>
Father of the Deced came there to inquire for the Deced<lb></lb>
Says that the Deceds Father came there again this Money<lb></lb>
between four and five o'Clock to inquire for the Deced<lb></lb>
That they Searched some time and could not find<lb></lb>
him Says that he at last fond the Deced lying on<lb></lb>
his face in the Mud, with the Stern of a Barge<lb></lb>
upon his Head and Shoulders, Says that he got<lb></lb>
the Deced upto a Barge, and carried, him to<lb></lb>
the Shore at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo889">Adelphie</rs>
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, having no Mar<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
of violence upon his Body. & only a little hurt<lb></lb>
upon one Eye, occasioned as Dept. believes by his<lb></lb>
lying in the Mud upon his face</p>
<p n="791"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n791-1">France Esterbreck</rs>
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<p n="792">Sworn the Day Year<lb></lb>
& Place abovementioned<lb></lb>
before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n792-1">Tho Prickard</rs>
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