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The Voluntary Confession and
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Taken this First day of October 1781
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before me One of his Majesty's Justices
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of the Peace in and for the said
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head in Pump Yard in the Hamlet of
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and Hemp (meaning
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an Informant Supposes that there were a Chance
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of Stealing a Quantity of the above Articles) and if
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he would go and
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Staid at the Queens head for some time and drank
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between five and Six Pots of Beer. when Informant
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being much Heated in Liquor was persuaded on ley
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said Evans and Mills to go with them and they
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all three went out together from the Queens head
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to the Water Side near Mr. Barkers Wharf
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That Mills and Evans took a Stiff and went
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from the Shore with Intent as Informant apprehent
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to Steal some Flax or Hemp leaving Informant
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behind where he Continued some times in the Craft &
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some times
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Mr Barlers Wharf for near two hours
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at which time they returned but then had nothing
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That
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