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November 1766

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This is to Certify that I examin'd the Body of Sarah Foster< no role > on Novr:
25th. 1766, and did not percieve any Marks of Violence, or any, room
to suspect the said Pson had been poison'd, or come to any Violent death
but Apprehend that her death might be occasiond from a great
Effusion of Blood (Wind a flooding) that might be at the Period
of her delivery or ensue presently afterwards, as it was represented
(to me by a person who saw her at first

I eyamind at the same time a Female Instant, and apprehend from
the Appearance and other Circumstances that Child had life
when it Came into the world, and on my own Opinion was as its full
growth, I tried the Experiment of suspending the lango in water
and from the Appearance Conclude the Child was born alive, tho
the lango was not so much Inflated as I have seen some have been

Philip Bodham Roberts< no role >
V. That Sarah Forster< no role > dist a [..] death
That the female Child was Witfuly Murddley
some Person or Persons unknown




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