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on the 6th.
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being walking along a Plank from a Coal Lighter to the Shore
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of the Dock of Mr.
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Coal Merchant in Milbank
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Street in the
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Westmr with a
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Lack of Coals on his Back, it so happened that the Feet
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slipped by means whereof he the
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then and there accidentally casually and by
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Misfortune fell from off the Said Plank with the said Lack
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of Coals into the Water, and the right leg
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James Porter
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was by the force of the said fall together with
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the weight of the said Lack of Coals fractured and Roke
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of which the Said
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Languished in the Westmr.
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Hospital from the said
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6th. day of July 1773, to the
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31st, day of the same Month, and then of a Fever occasioned
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by the said Fracture on his Leg Died. And so the Jurors
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say that the said
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in Manner & by the Means
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aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune came to
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his
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