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Informations of Witnesses taken at
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about two Month that
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he was also a Prisoner in the said Prison - That Dept. and
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her husband lived in the same Room with the deced - that the
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deced has been ill the whole of that time with the Yellow Jaundice
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Sworn the 12th day of
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April 1792 before me}
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