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To wit
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The Information of Grace Henderson servant to
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Mr. Sherrer of Mark Land London
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John Walker
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cow Cross
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Bricklayer
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Benjamin Nash
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Mile End new Town
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Weaves taken before
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me
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John Staples
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Esqrs
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one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace
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Acting in and for the Said County the 12th day
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of October 1783.
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Who being on their Oaths say and first the said
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Grace
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Henderson
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for herself saith that on Wednesday the
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first day of October Instant she left a Trunk containing
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five goures one Green silk Peticoat one Black mode
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Elsah unbined one Denitty Petticoat and the several other
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Articles of Wearing Apparel now produced and several
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and
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directed her sd sister to send the same to her masters
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in Mark Land aforesaid and that the several Articles
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of Wearing Apparel now produced as aforesaid are her
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property and the same that she so left in the said Trunk
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as aforesaid.
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And this informant
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John Walker
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for himself saith that
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on the said first day of October Instant he was
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Directed by his Mother
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Sarah Walker
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at
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aforesaid to carry a Trunk containing sundry
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Articles of wearing Apparel to the House of the
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said
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Mr. Sheuez
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in
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Mark Lane
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London of sd. for the
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others Informant the said
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Grace Henderson
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that
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Passing Along Henchurch Street Between the Hours
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of six and Seven o'Clock in the Evening of the
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same Day he pitched the said Trunk down on
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a Block there whilst he made Water That
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a person comming by at the same time pretended
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to have cost a Guinea and prevailed on him this
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Informant to fetch him a candle
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who
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which this
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Informant Imprudently did and when he
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returned the said person was gone to gether
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with the said Trunk.
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And this Informant
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Benjamin Nash
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of himself
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saith that on the Evening of the said
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