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about fourteen Years that he was also a Lighterman
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that between the hours of six and seven in the Morning of Saturday
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last the 6th: instt:
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Dept.
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to lead said Lighter with some Corn from a Vessel lying in the
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middle Teer that the deced
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the deced's feet (as Deponent thinks) slept, and he fell between the Lighters into the
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into the Water did their endeavours to assist the deced but without
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effect for in about a Minute and a half the deced sunk under the
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Sworn the 12th day of
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Novr. 1791 before me}
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J Shelton Corr
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maketh
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Oath that about three OClock Yesterday afternoon Dept. in
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Company with one
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they dragged up the body of the deced
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that they conveyed the deced on Shore and after acquainting the
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deceds friends they left the deced lying on the Stairs.
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Novr. 1791 before me}
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