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July 1773
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Published at true a Promissory Note for Payment of
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Money now Produced purporting to be the Promissory Note of
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for the Payment of two pounds two Shillings unto
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or Order on Demand dated Decr. 16 1772, and the said
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for himself says that the Name Lewis Poole signed to the said
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did feloniously
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publish the said Promissory Note for Payment of Money as true knowing
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it to be falsely made forged and counterfeited with Intention
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to defraud this Informant the said
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Sworn before me
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July 13th. 1773}
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