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Informations taken this Tenth
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day of November 1783 at the Parish of
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St Ann within he Liberty of Westmr. in
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the County of Midsex upon an Inquisitn.
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touching the Death of a Man
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Parish Liberty and County
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Amos Stevenson
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at No 9
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Glanville Street
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on his Oath saith, That on Friday
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last the Seventh Instant about half past
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five o'Clock in the Evening this Dept. was
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coming from Work and in
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in the
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. he saw
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the Deced
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Sitting upon the foot Pavemt.
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with his Back against a House, being
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Speechless and unable to move himself
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Says that he and some Sailors intended
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, but the
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Land lord, would not suffer him to be
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brought into the House Says that a
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came by who said that he
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would pay for a Coach to carry the Deced
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, and Deced was accordingly
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put into a Coach, and this Dept. & another
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Man went with him in the Coach to the
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, and were there told that
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the Deced could not be taken in without
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an Order from an Overseer which was
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procured Says that the Deced never
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spoke in the Coach and that he died in
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the Coach in about a Minute after the
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Coach stopped at the Workhouse Door
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Says that he saw no Marks of violence
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upon the Deced, and believes that he died
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in a natural Way.
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Sworn the Day Year &
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Place abovernmentioned
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before me
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Tho. Prickard
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