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December 1760

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The Information of Joseph. Pearson< no role > Esqr.
Taken before me this 19th. day of Decr. 1760

Who being on Oath says That some time abt. July last, observing
a House in Wilderness Math Chelsea to be advertised to be sold by
function, he this Informt. went in Company with one Mrs. Ann Gascoigne< no role >
and one Mr. Leicester in order to see the sd. House, Says that in a
[..] Time after in agt. a Week as this Informt. believes, the this Informt.
went to the said House in Company with the aforesd. Mr. Leicester
being the day appointed for the Sale of the said House, says he
there saw a Person now present who calls himself Nicholas
Campbell
< no role > , who then and there called himself the Proprietor
of the said Houn, says that one Mr. Gibbons was the
Auctioner; And this Informt. says that before that day
to wit the day of the Sale of the said House which was
about July last, he never Spoke to, Conserved with, had
any Dealing or Transaction with, of any kind whatsoever
with the said Nicholas Campbell< no role > , and farther says that
he does not remember ever, even to have seen him, and
this Informt. says that on this day he bid about fourscore
pounds for the said House but that others bidding more
he had it not, says that in abt. a Week after the afore sd Sale
he met the said Mr. Campbell in St. James's Square who
Spoke to this Informt. first, and Told him that the House
was not Said, that he owed the aforesaid Mr. Gibbons
£160, that if he wou'd lend him forty pounds the shou'd
be able to pays off, part of the sd. Mortgage and that he
shou'd have the Houn or a proper Valuation
says that the next day he carried two £20 Notes
to the said Campbells House from whom he




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