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Late Charts of westmr
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Informations of Witness
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taken him 20 Septr.
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1797 at the House of
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of a new born ferial Child
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Sworn saith that he has examined the Body of
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the Deced & from General Appearance believes
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it to be in new born Child. the child is in
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so putrid a state he cannot positively
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undertake to say what was the Cause
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of the Death but if born alive (which
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is impossible for him to say) there can be
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no doubt but that it was drowned
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Richd: Simmons
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Joseph Allen
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waterman
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he was
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coming from
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Yesterday between
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1 & 2 o'Clock & nearly opposite
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York
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about 140 Yards from the Shore
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he saw the deced floating on the Surface
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of the Water it was then high water
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it was then quite
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that the sd. female child was found drowned in the River
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Thames on the 19 sept. 1797 in a Putrid state but how &
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by what means the said child came there & to her death
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no Evidence thereof doth appear to the Jurors.
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