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The Information of
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taken before me one of his Majestys
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for the County
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Who being upon Oath saith that this Day about noon this
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Informt. hearing a Noise in an Adjoining Room next the
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Stair Case in his Dwelling house This Informt. Imediately
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came out of a Closett where he was then at Work in an
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Outer Room where a Coat and other Apparel of this
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Informt. was laid and mised a Coat with Metal Buttons
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the person that had stolen the said Coat & in about Ten
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Minuits came up with the Woman now present who Calls
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who this Informt. asked if she had
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seen any person with a Coat answering the Description of
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the Coat he had lost & she thereupon told this Informt. that
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there was some
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next Street but she did not offer to produce the Coat to this
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Informt. till he asked her what she had in her Apron & thereon
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she opened it & then this Informt. saw his own Coat And this
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Informt. verily bels. the said
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Stole the said Coat from this Informt.
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Sworn the
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29th. day of January 1757
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Saunder Welch
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Lewis Burnett
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