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1st January 1786 - 23rd February 1787

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Image 161 of 23110th February 1787


Middlesex to wit


The Information of Mary Stokes< no role >
Wife of Joseph Stokes< no role > and
William Baker< no role > taken before me
one of his Majestys Justices of
the peace in and for the said County

Who being upon their Oaths say and first
this Deponent Mary Stokes< no role > for herself saith
that she lives in the precinct of Saint Catherines
in the said County that on Sunday Evening last
the 28th of January inst about Six o Clock
[..] She and her Husband went out together and
fastened their Doors that about half an hour
afterwards they were fetched home by some of
the neighbours and told their house had been
robbed that when she & husband came home
they found their house had been burglariously
broke open and Entered and one Blanket
One Sheet and one pair of Copper Scales now
produced were feloniously taken and Carried
away therein the property of her Husband
Joseph Stokes< no role > And this Informant William
Baker
< no role > for himself saith that he happened to
be in the Court where the said Mary Stokes< no role >
lives situate in Saint Catherines aforesaid
that he saw three persons now present
who callshimselfthemselves John Williamson< no role >
Horsey Joseph Mullagan< no role > and James
Colman
< no role > there and go to the Window of the
Dwelling house of the said Mary Stokes< no role > that
James Colman< no role > took the pane of Glass out of the




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