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Alexander Shairp
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now here
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lying deced.
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maketh oath that yesterday of little past 12 at noon
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Dept. may called on in a great hurry to go to the deceds. Mr
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Shairps house whither he accordingly went and found the
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deced. lying on
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Couch in a back room and a Green
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laying by his side. Dept. aforesaid a considerable wound on the
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right side of the deceds. head
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which had
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and that Scull much that wood; that the
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bullet or
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fall, that the deced. was the alive examined so for
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half an hour when he died. That his death was
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certainly occasioned by the Wound be premd.
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Sworn the 18th day of
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February 1789 before me}
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T Shelton Corr.
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Wm Lucas
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David Orme
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maketh oath that
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he last known the deced. many years past, that his mind
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has been much agitated that has been
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in a
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melancholy state of mind for warly purpose monthly past
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& more particularly so lately in so much that his memory
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& culture were much impaired Dept says
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the
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deced laboured under a melancholy mian city.
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Sworn the 18th day of
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February 1789 before me}
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T Shelton Corr.
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