Middlesex Sessions:
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July 1762

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Middlesex To wit


The Information of John Hunter< no role > taken
before me this 10th.. day of June 1762

Who being upon Oath says that he knows and has been some
time acquainted with [..] William Simpson< no role > als Pug-Nose Jonathn
Martin
< no role > als Pattons, John Adwell< no role > als Jack aboveGround, James
Harvey
< no role > als one Eyed Tem, Richard Mitchell< no role > , Christopher
Wakeland
< no role > , John Smith< no role > and Joseph Clifton< no role > all Seafarring
Mery that he in Company with all the said Persons
hath been Guilty of divers Robberies and Felonies says
that about two Months agoe he in Company with said Simpson
Richard Mitchell< no role > John Adwell< no role > and Jonathan Martin< no role > stopt
and Robbed a little Man in a brown Coat about 12 o'Clock at Night near Newington in
Surry from whom they took about five Shillings in Silver and
some Half pence His Hatt, Shoes and his Silver Buckles which Buckles
Mitchell Sold for £6-3d. to a Silversmith in Ratcliffe Highway
says that the same Evening he in Company with all the said
four Persons stopt and Robbed two Persons near Deptford
Bridge of some Halfpence and a Handkerchief, that one
of the Persons they so Robbed told them he was a Poor Bisquet
Baker, says that two Nights after this he Wm.. Simpson, Richd.
Mitchell
< no role > and James Harvey< no role > stopt a Coach in the back
Lane St. Georges [..] near Angel Gardens and Robbed
the Coachman of two Shillings whom they likewise beat in
a desperate manner, says that the same Night they stopt
and Robbed a Person in the New Road near the same place
of some Silver, says that the next Night, he this Informt.
Mitchell John Smith< no role > and James Harvey< no role > stopt a
Man near the same Place and Robbed him of one




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