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<p n="2392"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1818">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2392-1">Sarah Woodman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1819">Precinct of St Catherines</rs>
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<del> <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ677">Widow</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before me one of his Majesty <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ678">Justices<lb></lb>
of the peace</rs>
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in and for the said County</p>
<p n="2393">Who being upon Oath saith that she keeps a House<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo1820">Flemish Church Yard</rs>
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in the said Precinct and<lb></lb>
County aforesaid that on Wednesday night the 24th of<lb></lb>
September instant about Eleven o Clock she was<lb></lb>
Walking along the aforesaid Flemisk Church Yard<lb></lb>
when she was feloniously Assaulted by five or<lb></lb>
Six Persons who with horrid Imprecations knocked<lb></lb>
her down and feloniously took and Carried away<lb></lb>
her cap and tore her Wearing Apparel to pieces<lb></lb>
That among the persons who feloniously Attacked<lb></lb>
her as aforesaid was Frances Johnston <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2393-1">Elizabeth<lb></lb>
Anderson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2393-2">Jane Davison</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2393-3">Catherine Davis</rs>
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and two<lb></lb>
Woman Servants all be longing to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2393-4">Francis<lb></lb>
Johnston</rs>
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And further that the said Frances Johnston<lb></lb>
Several times struck her and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2393-5">Elizabeth<lb></lb>
Anderson</rs>
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took the Cap which she had been robbed<lb></lb>
off into the House of the said Frances Johnston<lb></lb>
and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2393-6">Jane Davison</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2393-7">Catherine Davis</rs>
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and the<lb></lb>
Two Women Servants were present aiding abetting<lb></lb>
and Assisting in the said Felony And this<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Informant<lb></lb>
further upon her Oath declares that after she<lb></lb>
had by force been rescued from them and taken<lb></lb>
to the House of One <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2393-8">Sarah Hill</rs>
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who lives next<lb></lb>
door to the said Frances Johnston she heard the<lb></lb>
Said Frances Johnston repeatedly<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
call her<lb></lb>
a bloody bitch and swore that if she came out<lb></lb>
of the House where she then was that she wond<lb></lb>
Rip her bloody entrails out</p>
<p n="2394">Taken And Sworn before me<lb></lb>
the 25th. of September 1783<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2394-1">P Greene</rs>
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<p n="2395"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2395-1">Sarah Wardman</rs>
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