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Informations of Witnesses taken this
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27th. day of Febry 1795 in the
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touching the Death of a Woman Name
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being sworn deposeth that
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abot. 11 o'Clock Yesterday Morning (the 26th. instant)
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as he was wheeling some Dung from a wharf into
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Mr. Belchers Garden Ground he saw the body of
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the deceased lying on the Shown as the Tide was
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going down whereupon this Deponent with another
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person took her out of the Water and laid her on the
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wharf and searched her Pockets and found nothing
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therein but a piece of a Tin nutmeg grater a small
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red and white spotted Pocket handkerchief and a bit
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of black Ribland, the had a Cap on her hand bound
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round with a purple ribband a black silk short
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Cloak a bit of Ribband round her Neck a purple
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by what
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