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James Townsend
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. maketh Oath and saith
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that on Wednesday the 22d. day of June last as Dept
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said Cotter and deced. together
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the deced came to Dept
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and told Dept. that Cottar
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him the deced a Sum of
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money and desired Dept. to see him righted; that
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thereupon the deced came up to Cotton and asked Cotton
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to pay him the money which Cotton refused to do
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then said to Cotton that he wod. not let Cotton go any
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further unless he paid him; that then sd. Cotton and the
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deced. having hold af rach at her Collars, they
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stradled a cross a Ditch and Cotton with great Force
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Hammer which Cotton had then in his hand on the
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left side of his Head over his left
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a: that some
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Blows passed between the deced and Cotton afterwards
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and Dept. took hold of Cotton and seemed him and
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never saw the deced since till this day when Dept. saw
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the deced dead in
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Sworn the
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11th. day of July 1774
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Thomas Connyer
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Anne
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the deced late of
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Victualler
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maketh Oath and
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saith that Dept. Husband having as Dept. was informed
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and believes by her sd. Husband received a violent Blow
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from
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with a Bricklayers Hammer on
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Wednesday the 22d. of June last her sd. Husband was the
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same Evening conveyed to
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to be taken care of that on the Friday Morning Dept.
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went to the sd. Hospital to see the deced. who then appeared
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to be tolerably well, but complained of a pain in her hand
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that the deced then told Dept. that Cotton had struck him
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the Hammer as aforesd: that on the Monday & Tuesday
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following the deced appeared to be very ill and said that
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he thought himself in a dangerous way and on the sd. Tuesday
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the deced uprated what he had before said to Dept. of Cotton
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having struck him with the Hammer as aforesd. says she
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was present when the deced died wch was on Saturday the
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9th. inst. and Dept. verily believes that
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his Death was
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occasioned by the Blow given him with the sd.
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by the sd. Cotton.
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Sworn the 11th. day of July 1774
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before me}
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