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on Thursday Evening last the Seventeenth
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to see her Father who
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lived there with her Brother, and found
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the Door fastened, and the Deced and Brother
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Quarrelling, Says that she desired one of
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the Men at the Watch house to go with her
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to open the Door, but he did not go, Says
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that she went into Mrs. Waltering Sellar
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under Mrs. Pott's House and Stay there
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above half an hour, but heard no Quarrelling
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Says that she went to her Father on
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Friday at Noon, and proposed taking him
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away to her Lodging, and Deced desired
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that she & her Husband would came for him
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that Evening, Says that Dept. went accordingly
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between Seven & Eight o'Clock, and her
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Brother told has Deced Shod. not go that
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Night, after
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to Deced and Dept then went away that
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she went there again an Saturday found
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the Deced very ill and appeared to be dying
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Says that she stayd there about, an hour
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went away about two o'Clock after
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Deced a Dish of Tea, he not being able to
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Eat any Bread & Butter, Says that on
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Sunday Morning Dept. was informed that
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the Deced was Dead Says that the Deced
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never complained to Dept. of having be
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wanted Victuals or of being ill used by
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his Son, and Dept. believes that the Deced
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died a natural Death
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Co.
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John Ben
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