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maketh oath that on Monday morning last Depts being in
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going to ask the price of a Beast, a Man
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called
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Plate bid Dept not to go near a Bullock which he then pointed out
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and which is sayed to be the same that killer the deced, for, that he
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was vicious and very wild, and would have rural a feather when he brought
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it into
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in the morning to lye
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upon which Dept told
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him be should secure it or where it was turned off it might do such
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mischief; at this time the Beast was tied with two ropes, but in
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they are secured writ on only; that a short time afterwards Dept saw
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the beast wit said Plate at it Head and one
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Francis Parker
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behind it
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& it was presently loosened, and the said Parker with a stick he had
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pooked the
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Beast behind, and the Beast ran on an the said
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Parker following it and pushing it with the stick he had as it went
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that as first there were two other Beasts wit it but said Parker drove the
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said forth mentioned Beast from them, and it ran on up saint John
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street followed by with said Plato and Parker. Dept says that Place was going on by the side of the Beasts
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was acting as before mentioned; and Dept says that
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before the first mentioned Beast was seperated from the other two by the
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during of Parker, he (Depts) sayed to the said Plate & Parker "if any
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Accident shall happen from this Bullock it will he to your charge"
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Dept says that in about half an hour or less after this, he saw
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the deced taken,
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to the Hospital on a Shutter.
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Sworn the
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14th. day of September
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1786
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Chris Blackwell
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maketh
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oath that on Monday morning last Dept bought the bullock which has
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killed the deced of Mr. Ireland in
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, and Dept says that
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soon afterwards Mr. Peach a
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told Dept that the Bullock looked
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shy and he would have Dept. take care of it. Dept
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went to the
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Bullock, and sayed to two Men who were by the Bullock & when Dept
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took to
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drown of Mr. Ireland
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the he was informed
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the Bullock was build and he did not know what to do with it; and they
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