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and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted on the 29th. day of
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July 1773, at the
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one end of a certain peice of Cord unto an Leon Staple fastened
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into the Ceiling in the Back Kitchen Room on Apartment of the
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little Peter Street
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in the said Parish and Liberty and the other end thereof about
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her own Neck did fix tye and fasten, and therewith did then
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then and there Died. And so the Jurors on their Oath
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say that the said
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not being of Sound Mind
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Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted in
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Manner and by the Means aforesaid did Kite herself. In
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Witness whereof the Foreman on behalf of himself and the
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rest of the Jurors has hereunto set his Hand they 30th, day of
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July 1773
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