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Depositions of Witnesses taken at London
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then and there lying Dead
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maketh Oath and saith that between the hours of five
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and Six in the Evening of Yesterday the 13th instant Deponent
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was informed a Drowned Manlay at
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Stairs in
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said Ward that he went down to said Stairs and saw the deced
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floating in the Water between two Whereups at said Stairs that
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Deponent gave direction to two people that were standing
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by to bring the Body on Shore, that the Body was broughton
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Shore to the Bone house of the parish of Saint Mary at Hill
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that there don't appear to be any marks of Violence about
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the deced. that Deponent found a paper in the
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pocket of the deced, by which paper is appears that the
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; and was appointed
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to do Duty as a Watchman on board the Ship Hibberts
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from Jamaicas
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Sworn the 14th day of January 1789
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before me}
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T:Shelton Corr.
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