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<p n="1092"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo1174">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo1175">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Sixteenth day<lb></lb>
of August 1779 at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo1176">Parish of St. Martin<lb></lb>
in the Fields</rs>
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within the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo1177">Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
in the County of Midsex upon an Inquisition<lb></lb>
touching the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n1092-1">William Carr</rs>
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an Infant<lb></lb>
lying dead in the said Parish Liberty and<lb></lb>
County.</p>
<p n="1093"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n1093-1">Adam Richardson</rs>
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Whartinger to Mr. Wood<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo1178">Northumberland Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo1179">Parish of St.<lb></lb>
Martin in the Fields</rs>
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Westmr. on his Oath saith<lb></lb>
That he was yesterday afternoon about five<lb></lb>
o Clock in the Room at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo1180">Northumberland<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
Whart</rs>
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when he heard a Boy upon<lb></lb>
one of the Coal Lighters upon the Thames there<lb></lb>
crying out Help Help, here is a Boy<lb></lb>
Drowning, upon which Dept. went and<lb></lb>
after tying a Rope around him, jumped<lb></lb>
into the Thames and with his feet felt<lb></lb>
the Deced at the Bottom of the River Says<lb></lb>
that with a Hitcher he got the Deced up<lb></lb>
and carried to the Shore, and then to<lb></lb>
Mr. Philpotia Publican at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo1181">Northumberland<lb></lb>
Wharf</rs>
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where some Gentlemen Endrovored<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
for a long time to Recover him, without Feet,<lb></lb>
the Deced being dead, and Dept. Observed<lb></lb>
ns Marks of violence upon the Deced.<lb></lb>
Says that he saw two Boys playing upon<lb></lb>
the Craft before the Deced was Drowned<lb></lb>
and believes that the Deced Accidentally<lb></lb>
fell out of one of the Lighters (which<lb></lb>
floated) and was Drowned, the other<lb></lb>
Boy being then upon another Lighter</p>
<p n="1094">Sworn the Day Year & Place<lb></lb>
abovementioned before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n1094-1">Tho Prickard</rs>
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<p n="1095">A Richardson</p>
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