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the Reign of his Prsent Maty before
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Philip Mills
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known the deced 10 or 12 Years. That yesterday
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Morning Mr.
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his Matr men being at Break-
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them to their Work - the deced was one of the
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Company - The Witness & the men in returning
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found the Prisoner at the
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with a Hay Fork near him.
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burnt
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in. That the deced Endeavoring to see the Fork,
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the Prisoner took it & said no body shd. look at it,
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the deced neverthless laid hold of it, & the
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Prisoner swore it was his own Fork, he bought it
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- That in the strugle the Prisoner
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was too much for the deced - saw the strugle but
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did not see the wounding or the Fork in the Body,
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- but he saw the Prisonr. with the Fork in his left hand
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shove the Fork towards the deced - That the
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