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<p n="4">the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50513_n4-78">Joshua the elder</rs>
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she heard an<lb></lb>
Outery from the other Informant Elizth.<lb></lb>
& thereupon ran down Stairs & just as<lb></lb>
she came to the landing Place of the first<lb></lb>
Floor she heard the Report of a Pistol<lb></lb>
& the said Elizth. came directly up Stairs<lb></lb>
into the dining Room and this Informant<lb></lb>
said to her I hope you are not Shot "to<lb></lb>
which the sd. Elizth. answered" I am & have<lb></lb>
"a Ball in my Side" And this Informant<lb></lb>
found a loaded Pistol in the Pantry and<lb></lb>
another unloaded Pistol on the Kitchen Stairs<lb></lb>
And this Informant saying to ye sd Elizth.<lb></lb>
"my dear Child that you shod be served s<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50513_n4-26">Joshua ye younger</rs>
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Answered" It is I<lb></lb>
"that must dye for it" And this Informt<lb></lb>
farther saith that for sometime Past and<lb></lb>
particularly for some Days before the sd<lb></lb>
Accident happenned but more especially<lb></lb>
on the Morning of that Day this Informt<lb></lb>
thought there were evident Marks of<lb></lb>
Distraction in his Countenance & this<lb></lb>
Informant has been often in great hear of his<lb></lb>
destroying himself before the sd Accident</p>
<p n="5">Severally sworn before me<lb></lb>
the 4th. Day of Augst. 1762.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50513_n5-1">Saunders Welch</rs>
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<p n="6"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50513_n6-1">Elizth Laker</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50513_n6-2">Mary Dohos</rs>
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