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<lb></lb>
Depositions of Witnesses taken at the<lb></lb>
Parish of Saint John within<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65001_geo801">the Borough</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65001_geo803">County of Surrey</rs>
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on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65001_date166">21st: November 1788</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65001_n829-1">George Milner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
then and there lying</p>
<p n="830"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65001_n830-1">John Mitchinson</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65001_occ341">Mariner</rs>
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belonging to the Amity<lb></lb>
Merchant Ship laying off Horsley down new Stairs<lb></lb>
whereof <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65001_n830-3">Richard Mallison</rs>
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is Master maketh Oath<lb></lb>
and saith he hath known the deced between four and<lb></lb>
five Months that he was a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65001_occ342">Mariner</rs>
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belonging to the<lb></lb>
said Ship that about on ½ part 12 OClock on Tuesday<lb></lb>
last (the instt.)<del>Dept</del>
all the people belonging to<lb></lb>
the said Ship were called upon to unmoor her in order<lb></lb>
to move the said Ship into another Tier that Dept:<lb></lb>
and two other of the Mariners of the said Ship got into<lb></lb>
a Boat belonging to the said Ship in order to go about<lb></lb>
the said Business that Dept followed them like wise<lb></lb>
that when the deced was going down the side of the<lb></lb>
said Ship being about half way down and having<lb></lb>
hold of at Before that was fixed to the side of the said<lb></lb>
Ship he by some means or other let go his hold and<lb></lb>
fell into the Water between the Ship and the said<lb></lb>
Boat that he sunk<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
down under Water and Dept<lb></lb>
never see him after until Wednesday Morning when<lb></lb>
he saw the deced taken up dead by a Man who<lb></lb>
was grappling near where the deced so fell<lb></lb>
over board that Dept: and the deced were upon<lb></lb>
very good terms</p>
<p n="831"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65001_n831-1">John Mitchinson</rs>
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<p n="832">Sworn the 21st day of<lb></lb>
November 1788 before me}</p>
<p n="833">T Shelton Corr.</p>
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