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<p n="2094"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45017_geo734">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n2094-1">Thomas Gibson</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45017_date145">24th. day of May 1771</rs>
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<p n="2095">Who being upon Oath says that he was present at a Pond in a field which<lb></lb>
he has since heard called <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45017_geo735">Hare Street Field</rs>
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at the Time when the late Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n2095-1">Daniel<lb></lb>
Clark</rs>
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was very ill treated by Numbers of People then present, that he saw a<lb></lb>
person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n2095-2">Robert Campbell</rs>
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near the said Pond<lb></lb>
whilst the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n2095-3">Daniel Clark</rs>
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was in the said Pond, that he first<obscured></obscured>
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said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n2095-4">Robert Campbell</rs>
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with his Cloaths on and afterwards in his Shirt without<lb></lb>
his Cloths, that he this Informant took the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n2095-5">Daniel Clark</rs>
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twice out<lb></lb>
of the Said Pond in order to Save his Life, that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n2095-6">Daniel Clark</rs>
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<lb></lb>
died soon after this Informant pulled him out of the Water the second<lb></lb>
Time, says that it snowed very hard at the Time the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n2095-7">Daniel Clark</rs>
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was<lb></lb>
in the said Pond ad aforesaid, that he thinks it was about four o'Clock when<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n2095-8">Daniel Clark</rs>
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died and that it was about half an hour or three<lb></lb>
Quarters of an hour before the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n2095-9">Daniel Clark</rs>
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died that he Saw the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n2095-10">Robert Campbell</rs>
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at the said Pond but cannot he exact as to the<lb></lb>
Time</p>
<p n="2096">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45017_n2096-1">Thomas<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Gibson</rs>
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Mark</p>
<p n="2097">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45017_date146">May 24. 1771</rs>
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<p n="2098">Walding</p>
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