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Sixteenth day of this Instant in the Forenoon: upon
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Head and the Scull underneath Fractured, Says that
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the Deced continued in the Hospital, that he had very little
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That on the Sixteenth day of this Instant,
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, Says that Mr Slade an
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was
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called to Deced, who ordered her to be taken to
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, where she was immediately carried. Says that she
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continued there until the 26th. when she died. And this
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Dept. saith that the Deced has been at times disordered
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in her Senses ever since Easter 1767.
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