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<p n="1112"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1196">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1197">County of Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Thirtieth day<lb></lb>
of August 1776 at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1198">Parish of St. James</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of Westmr. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1199">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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upon an Inquisition touching the<lb></lb>
death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1112-1">Anthony Maddox</rs>
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lyme dead in<lb></lb>
the said Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="1113"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1113-1">Mary Dissesson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65216_occ345">Widow</rs>
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a Lodger at Mr. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1113-2">Thomas<lb></lb>
Mattison</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1200">King Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1201">Parish of St. James</rs>
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<lb></lb>
with in the Liberty of Westmr. on her Oath Saith<lb></lb>
That <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1113-3">Anthony Maddex</rs>
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the deced came to Lodge<lb></lb>
in the one pair of Stairs Room in the same<lb></lb>
House with Dept. on Wednesday Night last<lb></lb>
(Augt. 28.th) Says that she saw the Deced go out<lb></lb>
Yesterday Morning, and that he returned in<lb></lb>
about two Hours and went up Stairs towards<lb></lb>
his Apratment, says that between Ten and<lb></lb>
Eleven o'Clock last Night Dept,. was in her<lb></lb>
own Room on the Ground Floor when she<lb></lb>
heard a Noise overhead inthe Deced's Apartment<lb></lb>
upon which she went up Stairs and finding<lb></lb>
the Deced's Door Close but not fastened Dept.<lb></lb>
went in and saw the Deced standing near a Table there<lb></lb>
with a Reason in his Right Hand close to<lb></lb>
his Throat & Drawing at mess his There at and Bleeding from a Wound in<lb></lb>
the Thorat Says that the Deced did not speat<lb></lb>
and that this Dept. called out to the other<lb></lb>
Lodgers, who came there, and Deced in about<lb></lb>
five Minutes fell down upn the Floor, did<lb></lb>
not speak, but died in about half an hour<lb></lb>
and Dept. believes that the Wound in Deced<lb></lb>
Throat was the cause of his Death, and Dept.<lb></lb>
believes that he gave himself the Wound will<lb></lb>
the Razor which was found Bloody upon the<lb></lb>
Table. on Person being in the Room, with Deced<lb></lb>
when this Dept. first went up to him.</p>
<p n="1114"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1114-1">Mary Dresser</rs>
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