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N. B. The above Minutes I took on Sunday in the Afternoon July 25th

1773 from the Mouth of Mr Henry Hunt, after his Wife had been convey'd down

Stairs, who with great Clamour, Violence & Outrage, endeavour'd to hinder

his making any Will, declaring positively that he should make none. Mr

Bloxam was that Day as Witness to the Soundness of his Mind, while he dis

-coursed of his Plantation in Jamaica. In the Beginning of the Noise and Clamor

when he declared loudly that he should make no Will, he said, "Then this must

"be your Will, not mine." A while after when it continued, he said to me, "thus

"it was she made her first Husband's Will". When towards the last, she said, "he

"might make it to-morrow, when her Daughter was come, he reply'd, I may not

live till tp-morrow." He dy'd on the 28th.W Cooke

 

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