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<p n="662"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo480">Middlesex</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo481">Westminster</rs>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n662-1">Mary Knight</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before Us Our of his Majesty's<lb></lb>
Justices of the Peace for the said City<lb></lb>
and Liberty</p>
<p n="663">Who being upon Oath saith that on a Sunday Night about<lb></lb>
Nine o'Clock in the Month of march last the person on now<lb></lb>
Present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n663-1">Daniel Hopkins</rs>
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came to this<lb></lb>
Informants Lodgings in Rebecca Court <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo482">St. Mary Le Bone</rs>
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ant<lb></lb>
seemed very much confused and asked if <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n663-2">Edward Jones</rs>
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(the<lb></lb>
person when this Informant lives with) we sat home & she<lb></lb>
answered her was not that about Six, oClock<del>in</del>
the<del>morning</del>
<lb></lb>
Next Morning the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n663-3">Daniel Hopkins</rs>
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came again anr<lb></lb>
had a large Basket upon his head which seemed to be full and<lb></lb>
very heavyHopkins desired the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n663-4">Edward Jones</rs>
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to help<lb></lb>
him with it of has head open which he asked him whether<lb></lb>
had got there and Hopkins answered some Plate and<lb></lb>
Dollars which he had taken the Night before Jones asked<lb></lb>
him where he had got them but he would not tell him<lb></lb>
he then asked the said Jones whether he would go with<lb></lb>
him to sell it and he say'd he would not no he was<lb></lb>
going out of Town but he would recommend him to one<lb></lb>
who would buy it and then told him to go to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n663-5">Isaac Sampson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
a Jew in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo483">Dukes Place</rs>
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who would buy it of him the said<lb></lb>
Jones then helped the Buoket upon Hopkins's Head &<lb></lb>
he want away but white he was in the Room Hopkins<lb></lb>
asked this Informant if she he would have a Dollar or<lb></lb>
Five but the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n663-6">Edward Jones</rs>
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Damned her and say'd<lb></lb>
what do you want to be Transported for other peoples<lb></lb>
Stealing things and this Informant did not receive<lb></lb>
any</p>
<p n="664">Sworn before Us the<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45023_date58">8th. Day of April1775</rs>
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<p n="665"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n665-4">Geo: Reid</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n665-1">John Cox</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n665-2">George Mercer</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n665-3">Jno. Lane</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="666">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n666-1">Mary<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Knight</rs>
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Mark</p>
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