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Informations of Witnesses taken this
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15th. day of July 1797 in the
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Weeks last past he has been employed as Postboy
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and that he and
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this Deponent used to sleep together there; that
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on Thursday Evening last about
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about
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12 o'Clock
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when this Deponent went up Stairs to go to Bed he
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found the deceased upon the Bed with his Cloaths on
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and he told him
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when he appeared to be asleep
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whereupon this Deponent called to him twice
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and asked him if he was ill and he answered he
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was very poorly but would not take any thing
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