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BEP(F.765.023
8 Jul 1765:22 (1557)
New-York, June 27. . . Saturday night last, one Bersheba
Cleveland, being out a dancing, in company with a seaman
named James Caldwell, & 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 virdict, that her death was occasioned
by the said Caldwell.
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