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Informations taken this Ninth day of
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touching the death of
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in the said Parish
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Liberty and County
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Richard Basson
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Thomas Bettesmoor
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Waterman
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on his Oath saith That on Sunday Evening
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last Aust. 7th about Ten o'Clock Dept was in his Boat
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upon the
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upon Mill
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Mcurk, when he saw the Deced
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in the River driving down with the tide
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Cloaths and endeavoured to pull him
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to the Shore but was not able, and
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therefore dragged the Deced to
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where he was put ashore and the
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Beadles fetched a that in which the
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Deced was desired to
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house
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some days in the Water, but Dept.
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observed no Marks of violence upon
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the Deced.
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of
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on his oath saith, that on
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Sunday Evening last
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Richard Basson
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and another brought the Deced to
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and Dept. helped to carry
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him to the Shore in the
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, Says that
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he appeared to have been in the
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water some days Says that he
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