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<p n="1706"> <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65213_date339">18th. August 1773</rs>
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<p n="1707">Verdict of the Jury touching the Death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1707-1">Joseph Smart</rs>
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<p n="1708">That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1708-1">Joseph Smart</rs>
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not being of Sound Mind Memory and<lb></lb>
Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted on the 7th, day of August 1773<lb></lb>
at the Paris of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1342">St. Anne in the Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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,<obscured></obscured>
a certain Pistol<lb></lb>
charged with Jump powder and a Leadon Pullct which he the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1708-2">Joseph Smart</rs>
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then &<obscured></obscured>
had and held in his right hand to and<lb></lb>
against the right side near the Belly of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1708-3">Joseph Smart</rs>
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did then and<lb></lb>
there shoot oft and Discharge by means whereof he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1708-4">Joseph<lb></lb>
Smart</rs>
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did then and there give unto himself with the Leaden<lb></lb>
Bullet aforesaid do Discharged and shat out of the Pistol aforesaid<lb></lb>
by the force of the<obscured></obscured>
powder of or said in and upon the right lide<lb></lb>
of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1708-5">Joseph Smart</rs>
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one Mortal<obscured></obscured>
mornd of the Pheedth of,<lb></lb>
half on inch and depth of his inches or more of which said<lb></lb>
mortal Wormd he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1708-6">Joseph Smart</rs>
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in the Space of One<lb></lb>
Hour Died. And so the Jurors on their Oath say that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1708-7">Joseph Smart</rs>
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not being of<obscured></obscured>
Memory and Understanding<lb></lb>
but Lunstick & Distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid<lb></lb>
did Kill himself. In Witness whereof the Foreman on behalf<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
himself and the wet of the Jurors has hereunto set his Land this<lb></lb>
18th, day of August 1773</p>
<p n="1709"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1709-14">Jno Long</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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