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<p n="596"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo619">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo620">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Twenty sixth<lb></lb>
day of March 1784 at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo621">Parish of<lb></lb>
St. James</rs>
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within the Liberty of Westmr.<lb></lb>
in the County of Midsex upon an Inquisition<lb></lb>
touching the Death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n596-1">Rachell Clark</rs>
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<lb></lb>
lying dead in the said Parish Liberty<lb></lb>
and County</p>
<p n="597"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n597-1">Ann</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65224_occ425">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n597-2">John James</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo622">Swallow Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo623">Parish of St. James Westmr</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65224_occ426">Chandler</rs>
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on<lb></lb>
her Oath Saith That <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n597-3">Rachell Clark</rs>
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the Deced<lb></lb>
has Lodged with Dept. almost five months<lb></lb>
excepting about ten days that she was in Place<lb></lb>
Says that Deced almost every Morning came<lb></lb>
down Stairs and Breakfasted with Dept. and<lb></lb>
the Deced Breakfasted below Stairs yesterday<lb></lb>
Morning upon Coffee between Eight and Nine<lb></lb>
o Clock Says that she this Dept. afterwards went up Stairs<lb></lb>
to make her Bed on the First Floor, and Deced<lb></lb>
followed, and asked Dept. to go out with her to<lb></lb>
Buy a few things being to go to a Place<lb></lb>
that Day, and wished Dept. to send to ask<lb></lb>
Mr. Pearce whether it would be equally<lb></lb>
agreeable if she went that be Afternoon and<lb></lb>
upon Dept. advising her to go herself Deced<lb></lb>
turned out of the Room & went up Stairs<lb></lb>
into her own Room, it being then between<lb></lb>
Nine & Ten o'Clock, Says that Deced not<lb></lb>
coming down, Dept. went up Stairs about<lb></lb>
half hour after two o'Clock that Afternoon to see<lb></lb>
where Deced was, That on her going into Deceds<lb></lb>
Room, the Door of which was not quite Shut,<lb></lb>
Dept. saw the Deced Hanging being quite upright<lb></lb>
and appearing to be dead, Says that Mr. James<lb></lb>
was immediately called and cut the Ribband<lb></lb>
which was fastened to the foot of a Turned up<lb></lb>
Bed</p>
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