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-seventh day of September 1788 at the
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lying dead in the said Parish Liberty
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That last Night about Six o'Clock Mrs. Crew the
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Says that with a Knife he cut the Card, the
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Body being Warm but the hands were Cold
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Says that a
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ill a long times and believes that he was
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