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The Voluntary Information of
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before one this 6th.. day of November 1784
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Who being upon Oath says that about 4 o Clock on
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Thursday morning the 7th. of October last a person now present
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, and well known to this Informant - That said
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Payne came to the Bed side of this Informant, shewed him
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137 Dollars and 14 Watches and asked, if he would purchase
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a Person belonging to the Ship which he afterwards said
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was the Cook (Gray excepted) had taken their Shares to
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Cushmore and Farmers as much as they could carry,
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and that the rest were left at Old Browns, where they were
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landed, but did not tell him any thing more about the
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Robbery they had committedThat said Payne left said
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Watches and Dollars with this Informant who told him
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that he could not do any Business till Saturday Night
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Thursday and Friday being Holidays and Saturday their
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SabbathThat said Payne said he would take the remainder
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of his Share, which was about ten Hundred Dollars to
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his own House
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That the same Day said Payne and
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came to
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this Informant at the
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That said Gray told him
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that he should have his Share, if he would give him the same
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Price that Payne was to have, to which this Informant
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agreedThat the same Night this Informant met said
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