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that if he did any thing amiss he was to answer
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for it Says shop desired him to put her into a
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Workhouse to which he answered that to satisfied
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Dept. he wod. but never did. Says that abt. 6 or 8
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weeks ago Dept. heard Williamson's Daughter by
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a former Wife cry out pray Father, dear Father
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for Christ's sate do not do it, Dept. apprehending
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Williamson Was going to kill the deced, and Dept.
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thinks the deced cryed out at the same time, on wch
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Dept. went to the foot of the Stairs & cryed out Mr.
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William much at are you abt, are you murdering
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the woman, on which he came down part of the Stairs
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trembling & saying it was his Child that cryed
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out to such Depts. she know it was his Child that cryed such
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but she feard he was doing same thing to his Wife:
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her Apprentice to
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Williamson his Daughter what Williamson had been
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doing to make his Daughter cry out to the day before
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That on Monday last abt. 8 in the Evening Dept
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heard a noise in the deced's Room as if the Furniture
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in the Room was pulling abt, soon after wch Depts.
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heard Williamson, Mr. Cole, Mrs. Cole, the Daughter
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and two Boy's of Williamson,
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went out of the Room
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having locked it after them and went out all
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together on wch Dept. immediatly went up stairs
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and found the door locked: that Dept. then called out
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sevl. times to the deced but she made no Answer on
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wch Dept. went into her new Apartment again & told
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her Apprentice that she believed the deced was dead.
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That the next day between 9 & 10 in the Morning
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Williamson's Daughter came to Dept. told Dept. that
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Williamson wod. be extremely obliged to her if Dept.
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wod. come and look at his Wife for that she was dead
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to wch Dept. that she wod. sometime that day
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come
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up; that thereupon Dept. sent her Apprentice to one Mrs.
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Ellison in the Neighbourhood to acquaint her that the
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deced was dead, who Dept. believes communicated the
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same to the Neighbourhood; that thereupon Dept. with
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sevl. of the Neighbours to the Number of 8 or 10 went
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up into the Room Williamson being there & said the
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deced laid out upon the Bedstead covered only with a
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sheet: says she appearently then her bones seeming
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to be ready to come through her Skin, & appeared to Dept.
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as it she has died for want of common Nuisance.
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