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that is to say, at the Parish of Saint Bridget
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otherwise Bride in the
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aforesaid this 19th day of
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November 1792 on view of the Body of
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now here lying Dead
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Rice Baynom of
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maketh Oath that he hath attended the deced between
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five and Six years during which the deced was very
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much afflicted with a nervam Complaint which Dept
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was of opinion had been occasioned by drinking
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that on Wednesday last the deced applyed to Dept. for
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some Medicine that he appeared in a very Nervous way
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she
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very much
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and appeared in a very low state
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Dept. gave him some Medicine that Dept. being sent
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for called on the deced about half had eight on Friday
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Night last that he found the deced in Bed in a three
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pair of Stairs back Room in the House of Mrs. Harvey
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a Vine Vault to whom the deced had
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been a
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for some time a Dept. examined the deced
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having reced inform on that the deced had fell from the
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Window of said Room that he a found a violent contusion
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on the back of the deced nearly opposite the Kidnies
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a small Wound on the
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of the left Thigh-and a
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Contusion on the back part of the Head that he was
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insensible-Dept.
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applyed such Remedies an was
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necessary that the deced died at Dept. was informed
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in the warne of that Night-that during the some Dept
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has known the deced he has always been in a lose
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nervous way and Dept. has
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always considered
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him as deranged in his Mind
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the deced after when
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Dept. has seen him talking incoherently
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Sworn the 19th day of November 1792
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before me}
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Reid Baynon
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