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<p n="1596"> <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65213_date307">31st, July 1773</rs>
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<p n="1597">Verdict of the Jury touching the Death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1597-1">James Porter</rs>
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That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1597-2">James Porter</rs>
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on the 6th.<del>13th</del>
day of July 1773,<lb></lb>
being walking along a Plank from a Coal Lighter to the Shore<lb></lb>
of the Dock of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1597-3">William Hoare</rs>
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Coal Merchant in Milbank<lb></lb>
Street in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1257">Parish of St. John the Evangelist</rs>
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Westmr with a<lb></lb>
Lack of Coals on his Back, it so happened that the Feet<lb></lb>
of the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1597-4">James Porter</rs>
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slipped by means whereof he the<lb></lb>
Said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1597-5">James Porter</rs>
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then and there accidentally casually and by<lb></lb>
Misfortune fell from off the Said Plank with the said Lack<lb></lb>
of Coals into the Water, and the right leg<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
of the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1597-6">James Porter</rs>
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was by the force of the said fall together with<lb></lb>
the weight of the said Lack of Coals fractured and Roke<lb></lb>
of which the Said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1597-7">James Porter</rs>
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Languished in the Westmr.<lb></lb>
Hospital from the said<del>13</del>
6th. day of July 1773, to the<lb></lb>
31st, day of the same Month, and then of a Fever occasioned<lb></lb>
by the said Fracture on his Leg Died. And so the Jurors<lb></lb>
say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1597-8">James Porter</rs>
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in Manner & by the Means<lb></lb>
aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune came to<lb></lb>
his</p>
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