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Says that on Depts.
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blaming him for not taking
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her advice he said, they might all do their best or
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their worst for he would not fly. Says the deced
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had a great Quantity of Licecrawling about her
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when she saw her lying upon the Bedstead. Says
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that to the best of Depts. Remembrance it was about
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a Month ago since she last saw the deced out of
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her Apartments.
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Sworn the
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18th. day of Decr. 1766
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Elizabeth Farrington
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Charles Barton
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maketh Oath and saith that
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Morning
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afternoon between 1 & 2 he examined the Body of the deced
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who was suspected
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to
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have them starved to death
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and discovered
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only some superficial marks upon
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her
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particularly abruise upon her left which
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and
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the right side of her Upper hip
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was cut through; but third was no Bruise or Blore
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appeared
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that cod. occasion her death as Dept. cod. discover
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That he hath since opened her and finds the Heart
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Lungs and the Liver are in a sound state, that he desuted
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out the Stomach which was a great deal inflated
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with Wind but contained nothing in it, except abt.
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three ounces of gluetenous matter & some Frett that
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there was not the least Appearance of her lately haveing
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received any hind of Nourishment: that the Gubbs
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were greatly distended with wind and partly with
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hardened Excrement. The Masentary or
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Murybrante
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which connects the Bowells together and the Call were
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reduced to a Skinny Membrance Says he is
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of Opinion that she died for want of proper
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Sustinance
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Tho: Beach
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Coroner
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Chs Barton
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