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Nine
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Eight o'Clock on Saturday Night last the twenty
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third Instant she saw the Deced Ann, where
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Surname she does not know; lying done in
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Brewers Court in said Parish, Says that
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she took hold of her and Deced
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desired
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she would not full her about, the she
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went away and returned Shore again and
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found Deced in the same Place That she
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acquainted the Officers at the Watchhouse
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there of, and was desired to call Mr.
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Mc. kensing a Watchman who assited to
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carry the Deced to the Watchhouse about
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Twelve o'Clock in a Chair, and Dept.
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she was taken into the Watchhouse, Says
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that the Deced was thirty Cloathed and
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Dept. thinks that the Deced died by the Twele many
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of the Weather Says that it was about
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Ten o'Clock when she first applied to
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That on Saturday Night
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