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NYGWPB.765.057
27 Jun 1765:21 (1173)
Saturday night last, one Bersheba Cleveland, being out a
dancing, in company with a seaman named James Caldwell, and
some words arising between them, he struck her; upon which
she endeavoured to make her escape over several fences from
him, in attempting which, she hurt herself; this, with the
heat of dancing, and the blow she received, obliged her to
take to her bed, where she languished for two or three days,
and then died:--The coroner's inquest having found several
marks of violence on her, brought in their verdict, that her
death was occasioned by the said Caldwell.
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