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End new Town Widow Taken before us
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two of His Majestys
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Justices of the Peace
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in and for th e said County the 21st
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day of May 1783
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Elizabeth Marridge
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Morning about ten o'Clock there was Stolen from
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aforesaid in
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the said County two Linen Shirts and one Shift
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which were folded up and lying on an Ironing
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Board in the Fore Parlour of said House and that
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the two Shirts and the Shift now produced are the
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property of her said Husband and the same that
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were Stolen as aforesaid
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This Informant Mary Pressbury for herself saith That
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This Morning about ten o'Clock she saw the person
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of Linen under his Arm and suspecting he had stole
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Alarmed the
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in the
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said Hamlet and hearing a Cry of Stop Thief
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Running and a
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Number of Persons after him she Stopped him
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Shift now produced.
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Sworn the Day and Year first
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