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<p n="3281"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2454">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3281-1">James Allen</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3281-2">James<lb></lb>
Mc Manus</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3281-3">John Jones</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
me this 29th. day of December 1783</p>
<p n="3282">Who being upon Oath say, and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3282-1">James<lb></lb>
Allen</rs>
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says that on Tuesday the 23rd. day of December last<lb></lb>
hearing a Coach stops in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2455">City Road</rs>
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, and suspecting that<lb></lb>
a Robbery was then committing, he went up to said Coach<lb></lb>
S.W<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
and saw two Men with drawn Cutlasses who were running<lb></lb>
before the Horses and endeavouring to escapeThat he<lb></lb>
pursued said Men, when one of<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
them strick him<lb></lb>
on the Hand with a Cutlas, that he continued pursuing<lb></lb>
them till he accidentally fell down when said Man got<lb></lb>
out of his Sight and further says that he is very sure<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3282-2">Joseph Clark</rs>
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is one of the said Men and<lb></lb>
the Man who escaped from him as aforesaidThe said<lb></lb>
James Mc. Manus says that hearing the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3282-4">James Allen</rs>
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<lb></lb>
call out to him, to stop said Men, he pursued them that<lb></lb>
one of them struck this Informant on the Head with a Cutlass<lb></lb>
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who he is very sure is<del>the said</del>
a person now present<lb></lb>
who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3282-5">James Randall</rs>
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and whom he immediately<lb></lb>
took into CustodyThe said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3282-6">John Jones</rs>
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says he was with<lb></lb>
said Allen and Mc. Manus at this time, and Assisted in<lb></lb>
securing said Randall and further says that he is very<lb></lb>
sure that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3282-7">Joseph Clark</rs>
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is the other Person who was<lb></lb>
in<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Company with said Randall</p>
<p n="3283">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
29th. day of Decemr. 1783}</p>
<p n="3284"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3284-1">Sampn Wright</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3285-2">Tam<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
manus</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n3285-3">John Jones</rs>
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