MIDDLESEX
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AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Paul Shadwell in the County of
Middlesex , the Fourth Day of July in the Twenty first Year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third , by the Grace of God, Great-Britain, France, and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before Thomas Phillips< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
a Negro Boy Unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Peter Wallace< no role > Thomas Street< no role > James Paulin Thomas Cannon< no role > Miles Dudley< no role > William Willis< no role > Robert Blades< no role >
Samuel Wiffin< no role > Anthony Carlette< no role > William Benson< no role > Thomas Laycock< no role > and Thomas Measure
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
said Nepro Boy Unknown came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Negro Boy Unknown on the First
Day of June in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in The River Thomas< no role >
at New Crane Stairs in the Parish and County aforesaid Bat how on by what Means
he became drowned and suffocated no Evidences do the appears to the said Jurors

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Peter Wallace< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner
Peter Wallace< no role > [mark] Foreman