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                                                                                                                        [Mar. 2, 1861]                                                                                                                   

 

Virginia Brook County [?]

Depositions of [witnesses?] taken before us [Mr? Wm?] Jones

[Mr?]  Henry and [Mr?] Patton Justices of said

County now [setting?] upon the examination of

James [Harker?] suspected of Lunacy

            The deposition of [Ezekiel?] Harker of the age

of 81 Years a resident of Brook County Virginia

Ques  What is Patients age & where born

Ans     He is 68 Years old & born in Gloucester County New Jersey        

Ques  Is he married &c    

Ans     was once but has no family

Ques  What are his habits &c

Ans     Always [Temperate?]—is a shoemaker-no

            [Profanity? Property?] at all any where

Ques  How long since indications of insanity [appeared?]

Ans     Quite a number of Years perhaps about twenty

Ques  What [are? were?] they

Ans     He imagined himself the Pope & [doubt on?]

            The doctrine of Trans [migration?]

Ques  Does his disease appear to increase

Ans     It does

Ques  Has he any lucid intervals

Ans     Cannot say

Ques  Is his derangement [evinced?] on one or more Subjects

Ans     On but one that is his own [identity?]

Ques  what is the Supposed Cause

Ans     Never heard any

Ques  Any change in his bodily health

Ans     None

Ques  Any former attack

Ans     None. I have known him from his childhood

            do not know of any of his [connexions?] that [ever? were?]

            [?] insane. He is my nephew. Never knew

 

him to be under any medical treatment for his insanity

I consider him too greatly deranged in mind to go at

large or take care of himself and ought to be confined

in an asylum

            He has no property of any kind in this or any other

State. he has been in this State for twenty Years

off & on for twenty odd years. He has has his

home mainly at [Burgdtstown?] Pennsylvania

and would work [?] mostly.

 

            Doctor [E.H. Moon?] Deposed & says,

                        I have examined the Patient James

Harker now present & [Charged?] as a lunatic

In my professional view he is a monomaniac

-is a fit subject for an asylum & should be

confined therein I have practiced medicine in

Brook County for twenty years.

 

            The forgoing depositions of Ezekiel Harker

E.H. Moon [&c?] [in? are?] [sworn?] to before the undersigned

this 2nd day of March 1861

                                                [Wm? Mr?] Jones J.P.

                                                [Wm? Mr?] Patton              J.P.

                                                [Wm? Mr?] H Henry  J.P.