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The Informations of
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James
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taken and made on Oath before me one
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of his Majesty's Justices of the peace moved for
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the
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the 5th. day of April
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1781
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This Informant the said
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saith that he is
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a
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Journeyman
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to
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Joshua Hopkins
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a
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Silk Dyer
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in Quaker
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. That in Consequence of a Quantity of
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Silk having been stolen out of the said Mr. Hopkins Dyer
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house at sundry times and this Informant having Suspicious
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that one
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Charles Holloway
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who was likewise a Journeyman
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to Mr. Hopkins had stolen the said Silk this Informant
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with one
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on the 4th. day of April instant
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searched the said Holloway in the said Dye house and
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found concealed in Holloway's Breeches seven Ounces of
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raw Bollogna Silk the Property of Messrs. Adams and
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Ridall which was entrusted with Mr. Hopkins to dye
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That this Informant imagining that more Silk might
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be concealed in Holloways House in
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Alley
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he went there and found locked up in a
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Box in his House, four Ounces of raw piedmont Silk
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the property of Messrs. Clay and Aguster which had
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been entrusted with Mr. Hopkins to dye and waste
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stolen out of said Dye house.
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And this Informant the said
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James Brown
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saith that
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to Mr. Hopkins and that he was
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present with Emes at the detecting said Holloway with
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the first mentioned Silk concealed in
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Taken and sworn the day and year
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aforesaid}
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D Wilmot
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