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Image 43 of 4022nd February 1771


Middlesex
to Wit}


The Information of Mary Marton< no role >
Arthur Hewetson< no role > James Pomroy< no role >
& James Wise< no role > taken before me One
of his Majestys Justices of the Peace for
the said County

Who severally being upon Oath say And first
this Informant Mary Marton< no role > for herself
saith that she keeps a ready Furnished House
at Chelsea to Let out to Families or in Lodgings
that about Christmas Day last she was at her
said House & found all her Goods safe & on the
fourth of the last Month Word was brought to
her that the said House had been Broke Open
& a great Quantity of the Furniture Stolen the reout
And saith that the followg Goods now produced
[..] a part of the Goods which were so Stolen
Vizt. the Furniture of a Crimson Moreen Bed
two Pieces of China Ware a Bolster three Blankets
a Brass Pottage pot a Brass Drudger a Copper
Tea Kettle & a flat Iron & saith that she
does not know the person or person who Broke
Open the said House nor Whether it was Broke
Openly Night or Day And these Informants
Arthur Hewetson< no role > & James Pomroy< no role > for themselves
jointly say that on the 14th Day of January last
they searched a Room belonging to a person now
present who calls himself Benjamin Thornton< no role >
& found in the said Room the Following Goods Vizt
the abovemd. Bed Furniture two pieces of China
Ware the Brass Pottage Copper Tea Kettle Brass
Drudger & flat Iron and further say that a
person now present who calls herself Mary
Gibbons
< no role > but who then said that she was the Wife
of the said Thornton. was then in the Room &
looked the Door against these Informants but
upon their Insisting to Come into the Room she




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