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The Information of,
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Robert Jefferson
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James Everett.
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John Brooks
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Dennis McDonald
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taken before Me one of his Majesty's
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Justices of the Peace for the said
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Who being severally upon Oath say And first
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this Informant Robert Jefferson for himself
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saith that the persons now present who calls himself
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John Platt
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hath lived with this Informant as a
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Journyman
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about Six or Seven Months last past
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and saith that thirty four Pair of Womens Shoes 7 Paid
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of Mens Shoes and big Remantt Callimanco now produced
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are the property of this Informant and wen stolen
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from him
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during the said time which the said
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John platt lived with this Informant and saith
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that he was present when the other Informant
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Dennis Mc Donald searched the Room of the said
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John Platt and found therein Seven pair of Mens
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Shoes. 11 Pair of Womens Shoes & the said Eight
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Remnants of Callimancoe now produced
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And this Informant
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James Everest
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for himself
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saith that he is an
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apprentice
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to Mr. Debree a
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Pawnbroker in
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Holborn
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that the person on present
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Mary Elder
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. on the 24th. of January
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last pawned 2 Pair of Womans Shoes now produced
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with this, Informant and on the 31st of the same Month
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she pawned two other pair of Womens Shoes and sometime
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the last Month she came to this Informant and offerer
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two other Pair of Womens Shoes to pair which this
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Informant stopped and when the said Mary Elder
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Pawned & offered to pawn the said Six pair of Shoes
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she sayd her Name was Brownd that her Husband
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was a Shoemaker & that the said Shoes were his
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property & when the last two Pair of Shoes which
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were Shapped she say'd that she would go & fetch her
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Husband she went and never returned but upon her
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Examination in the hearing of this Informant she
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