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an hour after ten o'Clock Yesterday in the Afternoon
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in order to
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do a Job there where he found the deceased who shook
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him by the hand and asked him how he did and treated
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this Deponent with a Pint of Beer at which
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him the deceased appeared to be quite sober and
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be drank a little of the Beer and told this Deponent
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that he was the Youngest of all his
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should never want any thing and was sure that God
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The Verdict Sudden death by the Visitation
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