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to her death say upon their oath that she said
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and distracted on the sixteenth day of October in the twenty eighth year aforesaid at the Parish of saint Mary Magdalin
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in her
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right hand then and there had and held the Neck and Throat of her the said
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violently and forcibly did strike stab
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cut and penctrate Giving to herself thin and there by such striking stabbing cutting and penctrating with the sharp instrument
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of the length of Six Inches and of the depth
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from the said sixteenth day of October in the twenty eighth year
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aforesaid until the seventeenth day of the said month of October in the same year as well as the parish last aforesaid as also as the said
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>
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parish of saint Thomas within the Borough
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aforesaid in the County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live On which
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lb
>
</
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>
said seventeenth day of October in the year aforesaid as the parish last aforesaid within
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the Borough
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aforesaid in the County aforesaid
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lb
>
</
lb
>
the said
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>
Mary Welch
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of the said mortal wound did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Mary
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
Welch not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
kill herself In Witness where of as well she said Coroner as the said
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John Mitchell
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the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of
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lb
>
</
lb
>
himself and she rest of his Fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition so their hands and seals the day year and place first
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lb
>
</
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>
above written.
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Jno. Mitchell
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>
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Foreman
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>
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