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Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1648">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this<lb></lb>
Seventeenth day of August 1791.<lb></lb>
at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1649">Parish of St. George Hanover<lb></lb>
Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1650">Westmr.</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1651">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, upon<lb></lb>
an Inquisition touching the death<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1302-1">John Middlemas</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1284">lying dead</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the said Parish Liberty County</p>
<p n="1303"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1303-1">Thomas Dutton</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1285">Lodger</rs>
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at Mr. W. M<lb></lb>
Rose Street in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1652">Parish of St, Ann's Westmr.</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1286">Cabinet maker</rs>
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on his Oath saith That on<lb></lb>
Saturday Evening last he was in Company<lb></lb>
with the Deced John Middlemas of when they<lb></lb>
agred to go the next Morning to wash<lb></lb>
themselves in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1653">Serpentine River</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1654">Hyde Park</rs>
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and the Deced called upon<lb></lb>
his Dept, the next Morning about<lb></lb>
five O' Clock (the fourteenth Instant)<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
they Want together into <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1655">Hyde Park</rs>
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, That<lb></lb>
the Deced went into the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1656">Serpentine River</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and swam a little about, when this<lb></lb>
Dep likewise went into the River<lb></lb>
and swam down the River, Says that<lb></lb>
in coming along he heard the Deced say<lb></lb>
that he would<obscured></obscured>
across the River<lb></lb>
and Dept. saw the Deced swimming across<lb></lb>
towards the other side of the River<lb></lb>
and was got rather more than half, way<lb></lb>
when an alarm was given that<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Man was Drowning, and on looking<lb></lb>
round he saw the Deced in Danger &<lb></lb>
some times going down and Coming up<lb></lb>
at last Deced disappeared and Sunk<lb></lb>
Says that he swam about there some time<lb></lb>
but would not discover him That a<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
was brought and the Grapples used<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
day without Success, and that the Deced<lb></lb>
was</p>
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