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taken on Oath this
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Fourteenth day of August an: dom: 1699
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Who Saith that the last night her dwelling house
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was broke open and that one person with a dark Lanth
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came into her bed room with a Baggamtt or some such
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weapon in his hand and threatened to kill his there with
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if she would not discover her money to him that there upon
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she game him a Key of her Cubboard and told him there
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was Eighteen pounds there and bid him take it sane but
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her life that thereupon she opened the Cupboard and
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took out there 17lb.17r in moneyes numbred and one the
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person standing on
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the out side of her house called to
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the Said person in the house to come away that there upon
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he went out of the window and about a quarter of an hour
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after the watch came and this Informant sett them in and
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found the Said summ of 17lb 17r taken away And that she
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this Informant doth suspect
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to be concerned
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in the Said Burglary and felonie for that he the said
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was observed Yesterday in the afternoon to be walk napp about
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this Informants house and for that he is a person of ring
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ill fame and reputation
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