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<p n="3869"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2607">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Voluntary Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3869-1">Benjamin Wolfe</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2608">Cock Hill Shadwell</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ918">Tobacconist</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before one this 6th.. day of November 1784</p>
<p n="3870">Who being upon Oath says that about 4 o Clock on<lb></lb>
Thursday morning the 7th. of October last a person now present<lb></lb>
who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3870-1">Edward Payne</rs>
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knocked at his DoorThat<lb></lb>
said Payne is an Apprentice to a Watchman at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2609">Wapping<lb></lb>
Old Stairs</rs>
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, and well known to this Informant - That said<lb></lb>
Payne came to the Bed side of this Informant, shewed him<lb></lb>
137 Dollars and 14 Watches and asked, if he would purchase<lb></lb>
them, saying they were his Share at presentThat <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3870-2">May<lb></lb>
Cook</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3870-3">James Gray</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3870-4">John Dolphin</rs>
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now present together<lb></lb>
with <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3870-5">Joseph Church</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3870-6">John Miles</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3870-7">Thomas Brown</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
a Person belonging to the Ship which he afterwards said<lb></lb>
was the Cook (Gray excepted) had taken their Shares to<lb></lb>
Cushmore and Farmers as much as they could carry,<lb></lb>
and that the rest were left at Old Browns, where they were<lb></lb>
landed, but did not tell him any thing more about the<lb></lb>
Robbery they had committedThat said Payne left said<lb></lb>
Watches and Dollars with this Informant who told him<lb></lb>
that he could not do any Business till Saturday Night<lb></lb>
Thursday and Friday being Holidays and Saturday their<lb></lb>
SabbathThat said Payne said he would take the remainder<lb></lb>
of his Share, which was about ten Hundred Dollars to<lb></lb>
his own House</p>
<p n="3871">That the same Day said Payne and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3871-1">James Gray</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
this Informant at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2610">Synagogue</rs>
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That said Gray told him<lb></lb>
that he should have his Share, if he would give him the same<lb></lb>
Price that Payne was to have, to which this Informant<lb></lb>
agreedThat the same Night this Informant met said<lb></lb>
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