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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n720-1">Martha Venables</rs>
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April 1787</rs>
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Venables</rs>
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for herself saith That last Wednesday<lb></lb>
in the forenoon a Linnen Sheet was feloniously<lb></lb>
Stolen from her Dwelling House and that the same<lb></lb>
Street that is now produced is her Husband Property<lb></lb>
and that the same that was Stolen as aforesaid</p>
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for himself<lb></lb>
saith that the said Street was pawned at his<lb></lb>
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by<lb></lb>
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but it was pawned in the<lb></lb>
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28th. day of April 1787}</p>
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