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ity & Liberty
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Informations taken this Thirty
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-first day of May 1790 at the
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within the Liberty of
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Westmr. in the County of Midsex
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upon an Inquisition touching the
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death of
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lying dead
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in the said Parish Liberty & County
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I am Buffery one of the Nurses at St. J
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Infirmary in
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. on her Oath saith That she
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was at the Ward Number four in said Inf
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last Night a little before Nine o'Clock when
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she heard somebody fall very h
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down
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found the Deced at the bottom of the Stairs
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unable to speak or to move herself, Says
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that she called some People there who lifted
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up the Deced's Head, when she Rattled in
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the Throat but could not speak, and Dept.
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afterwards, Says that the died between
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Eleven and Twelve o Clock last Night and
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that she died in consequence of the
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She reced by falling down Stairs and that
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the fall was Accidental.
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her Mark
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Sworn the Day & Year
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Place abovementioned
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