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9th September 1777 - 27th May 1779

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Image 75 of 18914th February 1778


and when the said Levy Samuel< no role > hard the said two Notes upon the Table this
Informant [..] pled to take them as they were not due but he sayd they were as good as
the Bank and had but a few days to Run Upon which this Informant asked him if
they were Alderman Bull's Notes and he answered, Yes, and upon that Averment this
Informant took them and immediately gave them to the offer Informant John Ohen
to take to his Banker as Just and the said John Ohen came and told this Informant
that he was a paid they were bad for they were not Alderman Bull's. That on the 13th of
March this Informant and John Ohen went to a house accordingly to the directions at
the bottom of the said Notes when he saw the Person who now calls himself Abraham
Barow
< no role > and asked him if his name was Bull and he sayd Yes. then this Informant
went with him into a Compting house and produced to him the said two Notes which he
took form this Informant reached down a Book and pretented to compare the
Notes with the Book sayd they were very right and returned him the Notes and say'd
they would to duly honoured and paid when due on which acceptance and promise
this Informant relied more particularly as the Accompting house appeared with
Books and Papers in the stile and manner of a Merchant of Credit. That Yesterday
being the 18th of March thinking the said Notes to be due this Informant with John
Ohen went to the said house when all the Books and Papers were removed, where he
saw the said Person who called himself Bull and tendred the Notes for payment who
say'd they were not due till the next day. This Informant doth therefore on his Oath
charge the said Levy Samuel and Abraham Barow on a stong suspicion of
feloniously and falsely making forging and counterfeiting the said two promisory
Notes for the payment of the Sum of One hundred pounds each and uttering the some
as true knowing them to be false forged and Counterfeit with intent to cheat and
defraud this Informant of the Sum of two hundred Pounds. And this Informant
John Ohen for himself Saith that he was with the other Informant John Mill< no role > at the
Coroline Coffee house and saw him receive the two Notes abovementioned from the
said Levy Samuel and by the desire of the said John Mill< no role > took them to this
Informant's Bankers when the said two Notes were returned to this Informant the
next day as they thought they were not good. after which this Informant returned them
to Mr. Mill they went to the house of F. Bull according to the direction of the Note
and saw the Person now present who now calls himself Abraham Barow< no role > who




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