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The Information of
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taken before me one of
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his Majesty's Justices of the Peace
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for the said County
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Who being upon Oath saith that he lives at
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Battle Bridge
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in the Parish of Saint Pancras
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That about Eight o Clock on Sunday Night last
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as he was going from Town to his House at
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opposite to Rhodes's Fann in
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he was Attacked by the three
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Persons now present who call themselves
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Thomas Free
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Thomas Pinckston
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two
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of them presented pistols and the other a Dagger
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and demanded this Informant Money twice but
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he told them he was a Poor Man & had but very
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trifling about him when one of them searched
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his Pockets but found nothing they then bid him
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go along and this Informant went home & then
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went towards Form this Informant is certain
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that the said John Brown Thos. Free &
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Thomas Pinckston are the three persons who
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Attacked & Attempted to Rob him at the time
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& Place above described
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Sworn before me the
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29th. Day of December 1774
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Jno. Barnfather
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King
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Mark
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