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understanding but lunatic and distracted the twenty third day of September in the year aforesaid
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did then and there instantly die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do
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say that the said
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not being of sound mind memory and undertstanding
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but lunatic and distracted did shoot and kill himself In Witness whereof as well the said
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as the said
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the Foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the
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rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day
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year and place first abovewritten.
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