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Glass Grinder and
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to Mr. Clark Pawnbroker of
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taken before me this 18th. day
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of March 1768
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Who being on Oath severally say and first the said William for
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himself says that on Saturday Evening last a Person now present
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who calls herself
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Ann Pearce
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came into his Room and made his Bed
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and that in a short time after she was gone out he missed a Watch
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which he saw hanging up near his Bed just before she went out
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and the said Richard for himself
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says that the said
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pledged a Watch now produced with him on Saturday Night last, and
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the said William further says that the said Watch now produced is
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his said watch so stolen as aforesaid and that he does suspect & verily
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believe that the said
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did feloniously take and carry
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away the said Watch
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Sworn before me
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March 18th. 1768}
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