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Informations of Witnesses severally Taken and Acknowledged
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on the behalf of his Majesty the Twenty first day of October in the
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Year of Our Lord 1769 At the House of Noble Reynolds known
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then and there lying Dead
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as follow (to wit)
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Saith he is Landlord of the Dolphin Alehouse in
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Came into
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Informants And said something to the People in the Tap Room
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but what or to whom in Particular he Knows not That Directly afterwards
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Came in a Captain of the Guards who he hath heard since was
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Capt. GreenfieldThat Informant whisper'd in the Capts. Ear
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and Told
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that what he wanted he Believed was up Stairs
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That then the Capt. said to some Soldiers who Came into
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with him "up Stairs Up Stairs" Upon that the Soldiers
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Advanced to the bottom of the StairsPresently afterwards
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and who he was afterwards told was Justice Wright
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And either He or the Capt. Said Load and Fire or Fire Informant
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cannot be Positive whichThat this was to the best
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of his Knowledge After the Soldiers had Called Out One of
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their Men was Shot That the Man who was Shot
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Informant thinks was Shot from above Stairs
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That as soon as the Soldier was Shot either the Justice
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or the Commanding Officer Ordered the Soldiers to Fire
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That there were some Persons in a One Pair of Stairs
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