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Image 204 of 37219th March 1774


Middlesex to wit.


The Information of, Robert Jefferson< no role >
James Everett. John Brooks< no role >
and Dennis McDonald< no role >
taken before Me one of his Majesty's
Justices of the Peace for the said
County

Who being severally upon Oath say And first
this Informant Robert Jefferson for himself
saith that the persons now present who calls himself
John Platt< no role > hath lived with this Informant as a
Journyman about Six or Seven Months last past
and saith that thirty four Pair of Womens Shoes 7 Paid
of Mens Shoes and big Remantt Callimanco now produced
are the property of this Informant and wen stolen
from him [..] during the said time which the said
John platt lived with this Informant and saith
that he was present when the other Informant
Dennis Mc Donald searched the Room of the said
John Platt and found therein Seven pair of Mens
Shoes. 11 Pair of Womens Shoes & the said Eight
Remnants of Callimancoe now produced

And this Informant James Everest< no role > for himself
saith that he is an apprentice to Mr. Debree a
Pawnbroker in Holborn that the person on present
who calls herself Mary Elder< no role > . on the 24th. of January
last pawned 2 Pair of Womans Shoes now produced
with this, Informant and on the 31st of the same Month
she pawned two other pair of Womens Shoes and sometime
the last Month she came to this Informant and offerer
two other Pair of Womens Shoes to pair which this
Informant stopped and when the said Mary Elder
Pawned & offered to pawn the said Six pair of Shoes
she sayd her Name was Brownd that her Husband
was a Shoemaker & that the said Shoes were his
property & when the last two Pair of Shoes which
were Shapped she say'd that she would go & fetch her
Husband she went and never returned but upon her
Examination in the hearing of this Informant she




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