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deceased maketh oath and saith that she personalty knew her
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said deceased Father in Law in his life time And that he died on the
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twenty first day of July last past
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in this deponent's presence of the
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wounds
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he (as she is credibly informed) received in a Vessell in the
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River, Thames the preceeding day and was interred at the said
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Hospital for whose Death the abovenamed Defendant is under
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Custody in the Goal of the said
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