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Image 109 of 46123rd February 1785


Middlesex
to wit}


Informations of Witnesses severally Taken
and he knowledged the Sixteenthfifteenthday of
February in the Twenty fifth Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the
Third King of Great Britain Etc.
at the House of William Hudson< no role > Known
by the Sign of the black Dog in the Parish
of Saint Leonard Shoreditch in the said
County before Thomas Phillips< no role > One of the
Coroners for the said County on view of
the Body of Joseph Higson< no role > then and
there lying dead as follow (to wit)

Ann Dickinson< no role > Wife of Thomas Dickinson< no role >
of Long Alley Weaver Saith That she Lives
Opposite to Higson the Father of the Deceased
That the Deceased she Believes is upwards
of Eight Years oldThat the Father
was a Taylor and hath Lived in long Alley
about five MonthsThat Informant
Sells Fish And a Month ago either today
or tomorrow Informant was sitting at her
Door with some SpratsBelieve's about
Two o'Clock in the Afternoon the Deceased
run out and the Father run after him with




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