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London-Deposition of Witnesses taken at London
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that is to say, at the parish of Saint Catherine
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Cree in the
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aforesaid this 4th. day of November 1797
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on view of the body of
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now
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here lying Dead
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Ann Wife of
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James Gibbs
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maketh Oath between nine & ten on Tuesday Morning last
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Dept. last her House to go to Market and left the deced he Daus
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who was about
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or
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three years of Age and a Little Boy
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ten with hee in the lower Room a fire in the
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Room-Dept. has a man & his Wife who lodge in the one pair
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of Stairs whom Dept. believes were at Home at the time
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That in about half an house Dept. returned
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and found the Street
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Door open
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to the end of the Court where she lives with a Load
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upon her head and a Woman standing there
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sayed to
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Dept. your Child in Dead-Dept. got her Load off her head &
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went to he house and finding her Street Door open she went
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up
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nd down the Court & seeing some people opposite a house in
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the Court Dept. Went in upon going in the Child cryed one
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and suyed
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my Mammy My
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llammy-that a Dorton
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having been sent for came Dept. took the Child in her Lop
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and asked the deced how she came to go to the fine. the deced
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sayed she went to the fire to warm her frock-That the
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Surgeon examined the deced while the was in Depts. Lap that
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she was very much burned on the left side from her Cheek
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downwards to her
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That the deced lived until
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yesterday afternoon between four & five when she departed this
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Died 3rd Novr.
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