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The Information of
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Ann Hilton
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taken on Oath this 3d day
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of January 1789 before me one of his Majesty's Justices of
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the Peace in and for the said
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Who on her Oath Saith that she is a
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and that on Monday the twenty Ninth day of
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December last She having Occasion to go out she fastned her Window
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Shutters and Windows and Locked her Room door and then further
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fastne'd it by puting a Padlock on the outside and then went out
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it being between two and three o'Clock in the Afternoon to see a
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wether they was come
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to town and she then went from there to
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and Stayed to tea with a friend and then Returned home
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to her Appartments between Seven and Eight O Clock at Night when
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she Come home She was Informed by one of the Lodgers that She Was
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afraid all was not well and Informant that went along the Entry and
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Perceived her door Open and the padlock hanging on the Staple she
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with two of the Lodgers went into her Appartments and their found
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her Drawers Striped of Wearing Apparel and a Bolster Blanket and two Street and two
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Lawn Handkerchief now Produced by the Officers is the Property of
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and one Printed Cotton Gown one Muslin
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Apron one Muslin Handkerchief one Pair of Sheets one Silk Cloake
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one Lawn Handkerchief
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one Bolster and one
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Iron Footman is the Property of this Informant an all the above
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Mentioned Goods is part of the game that was Stolen out of her Appartments as aforesaid
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Taken and Sworn
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this
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3d. day of January
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1789
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D Wilmot
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