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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n2553-1">William Conner</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me this 13th. day of July 1773</p>
<p n="2554">Who being Oath says that on the 16th. day of December<lb></lb>
last he was present at the house of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n2554-1">Philip Waters</rs>
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now<lb></lb>
present with Lewis Poole now present when he this Informant<lb></lb>
drew a Receipt for two Guineas paid to the said Lewis Poole by<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n2554-2">Philip Waters</rs>
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as a Reward offered by a certain Advertisement<lb></lb>
which Receipt contained a Promise that the said Lewis Poole<lb></lb>
should return the said two Guineas to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n2554-3">Philip Waters</rs>
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<lb></lb>
if this Informant did not appear upon a certain Trial<lb></lb>
which was expected to come on between the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n2554-4">Philip<lb></lb>
Waters</rs>
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& some other Person which Receipt the said Lewis<lb></lb>
Poole signed and the same was delivered to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n2554-5">Philip<lb></lb>
Waters</rs>
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, says that no part of the said receipt was written<lb></lb>
by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n2554-6">Philip Waters</rs>
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, and further says that he does<lb></lb>
verily believe that the Name Lewis Poole signed to a<lb></lb>
Promissory Note for Payment of Money now Produced purporting<lb></lb>
to be the Promissory Note of Lewis Poole for the Payment<lb></lb>
of two pounds two Shillings unto <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n2554-7">Philip Waters</rs>
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or Order on Demand<lb></lb>
dated Decr. 16 1772 is not of the Handwritting of the said<lb></lb>
Lewis Poole but that the same is falsely made forged<lb></lb>
and Counterfeited with Intention to defraud the said<lb></lb>
Lewis Poole, that he this Informant has never since been<lb></lb>
required to appear upon an Trial by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n2554-8">Philip Waters</rs>
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<p n="2555"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45019_n2555-1">William Conner</rs>
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<p n="2556">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
July 13. 1773}</p>
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