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12th day of April 1792 on view of the
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body of a Man unknown now here lying
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Dead.
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and
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one of the Bearer of the Parish aforesaid maketh Oath that
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about between the house of Eleven and twelve in the Morning
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of Tuesday last Dept. reced direction from the Beadle of said
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to put a drowned Man in - Dept. immediately took a shell
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belonging to the Parish and went to George's Stairs and
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there found the deced who appeared to be a last about fifteen os sixteen years of are lying with all his Cloaths on across the
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cause way of the Stairs partly covered with water Dept
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put the deced into the shell and conveyed him to the Bone house
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of said Parish - the deced appeared to have been some time
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in the Water but there
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Sworn the 12th day of
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April 1792 before me}
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P. Wattd
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