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<p n="1404"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1488">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1489">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Fifteenth day<lb></lb>
of October 1775 at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1490">St. Clement<lb></lb>
Danes</rs>
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within the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1491">Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of Midsex upon an Inquisition<lb></lb>
touching the Death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1404-1">Zachary Pickering</rs>
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<lb></lb>
lying Dead in the said Parish Liberty<lb></lb>
and County.</p>
<p n="1405"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1405-1">Thomas Mills</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1492">Shire Lane</rs>
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in the Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1493">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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within the Liberty of Westmr.<lb></lb>
Sheriff's Officer for the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1494">County of Middlesex</rs>
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on his<lb></lb>
oath saith, That <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1405-2">Zaitrary Pickering</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65216_occ451">Deced</rs>
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<lb></lb>
was on the Seventh day of this Instant October<lb></lb>
taken in Execution by this Deponent and<lb></lb>
carried to Dept. House in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1495">Shire Lane</rs>
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, Says that<lb></lb>
the Deced was then low Spirited and spoke<lb></lb>
very little, That he appeared to be disorder<lb></lb>
in his Mind at times, Says that the Deced<lb></lb>
frequently drank Rum, Says that the Deced<lb></lb>
eat very little, and on Friday last in the<lb></lb>
Morning Deced had Convalsion Fits, in which<lb></lb>
he continued Seven or eight<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Minutes<lb></lb>
Says that the Deced continued in a very weak<lb></lb>
State, That Dept. hearing the Deced walk<lb></lb>
about his Room this Morning about Two o'Clock<lb></lb>
Dept. got up and went into Deced's room and<lb></lb>
found Deced behind the Door, who talked very<lb></lb>
in coherent and looked wild end confused, Says<lb></lb>
that he prevailed on the Deced to go to Bed again<lb></lb>
and Deced went into his own room which adjourning<lb></lb>
to the Deceds, That in about half an hour he heard<lb></lb>
something fall down in Deced's Room and on Dept.<lb></lb>
going in he Saw the Deced lying upon the Floor<lb></lb>
with his Head near a Table and his feet toward<lb></lb>
the Bed, being then in strong Convulsions, in<lb></lb>
which he continued about a Quarter of an hour<lb></lb>
and</p>
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