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of July 1781.
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, a Person now present who calls herself
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. That
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in a few minutes after he percieved he had been robbed
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of his Watch, Pocket Book, as pair of Stockings and a
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Hamilton with stealing them, who denied having any
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knowledge thereof; nevertheless he is very sure that the
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feloniously stole the same for that
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