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The free and voluntary Examination
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and Confession of
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Parish of Saint Johns Evangelist in the
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City and Liberty of
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in the
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County of Middx,
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Lighterman,
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taken before
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me one of his Majestys
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Justices of the
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for the said County this Sixth
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day of March 1758.
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This Examinant voluntaryly confesseth and sayth that
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on Saturday night last he feloniously state from the horse
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ferry at
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a Boat the Property of
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of
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, and that he came down the
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and did then and there
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feloniously steal out of two Lighters a Quantity of Coals
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(about Seven Bushels) the Property of Persons unknown,
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Taken and Subscribed by the sd.
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Robert
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Davis
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the day and year aforesaid
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Before me}
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Walter Berry
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