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<p n="282"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo188">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n282-1">Ruth Pearce</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo189">Silver Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo190">Golden Square</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ50">Widow</rs>
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taken before me this 26th. day<lb></lb>
of March 1781</p>
<p n="283">Who being upon Oath says that she Knows a person now<lb></lb>
present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n283-1">Samuel Austin</rs>
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and that she washes his<lb></lb>
Linen for him-That on Friday morning last between 9 and 10 o Clock<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n283-2">Samuel Austin</rs>
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came up to this Informants Room in<lb></lb>
Silver Street aforesaid (at which time her Silver Watch was hanging<lb></lb>
near the Fire Place) and sat down by the firesideThat he<lb></lb>
Continued there about a Quarter of an hour and then went away<lb></lb>
soon after which she found the said Watch was stolen<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
Says that us other person was in the Room from the time she was<lb></lb>
her Watch, till she missed it but the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n283-3">Samuel Austin</rs>
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, except<lb></lb>
a Boy whom she is very sure was not near enough to the<lb></lb>
place where the Watch hung to have taken it; from which she<lb></lb>
is very sure that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n283-4">Samuel Austin</rs>
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is the person that<lb></lb>
feloniously Stole her said Watch</p>
<p n="284"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n284-1">Ruth Pearce</rs>
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<p n="285">Sworn before this 26th<lb></lb>
day of March 1781}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n285-1">Sampn Wright</rs>
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