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The Examination of
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William Billings
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Second day of September
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1719
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This Examinant Saith that on Fryday the fourteenth day
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of August last he this Examinant hired a Horse in
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& rode out of Town & between
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overtook two other persons on Horseback
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Whose Name were
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vizt
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William Stevenson
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Constable and proceeded with then to
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they drank together & then returned back to
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where they rode up & down for four or five hours and
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at four a Clock the next morning being Saturday they
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mett with a Stage Coach upon the said Heath And this
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Examinant further Saith tha the Said Constable gave
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this Examinant a Couple of Pistolls and then they all
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rode up to the said Coach wherein were three or four persons
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And this Examinant and the Said Constable presented
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their Pistolls to the Coachman & the said Stevenson drew
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out his hanger & they bidd the Coachman Stop Upon Which
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Some Persons in or about ye Coach Shott this Examinants
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Horse dead under him And then the said Constable took
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this Examinant up behind him & so procured his Escape &
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then they rode Cross the Countrey to
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& thence
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2d Die Septembris Ao. Din
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1719
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