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<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2621-1">Samuell Sprang</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2621-2">Charles Cowderry</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2621-3">Mathew Hale</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2621-4">Joseph<lb></lb>
Colman</rs>
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taken<del>he</del>
this 23 day of June<lb></lb>
1784</p>
<p n="2622">Who being upon Oath say and first for Himself<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2622-1">Samuel Sprang</rs>
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says He is a Gardner lives<lb></lb>
at the Neat Houses upon <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1784">Mill Bank</rs>
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that<lb></lb>
about Half past one o'Clock this Morning He<lb></lb>
was called up by His <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ620">Watchman</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2622-2">Charles Cow<lb></lb>
derry</rs>
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who informd this Informant some<lb></lb>
persons had got into the Garden Ground that<lb></lb>
this Informant immediately got up went into<lb></lb>
the Ground saw the4 Man now present that to calls<lb></lb>
Himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2622-4">Thomas Chaddick</rs>
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and another man<lb></lb>
Latting up the Light of the Cricumber<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
that He took the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2622-5">Thomas Chaddick</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
that the other Man ran away that this<lb></lb>
Informant saw severall Cucumber Plants pulld<lb></lb>
up and severall Cucumbers lay upon the<lb></lb>
Ground in a Bag</p>
<p n="2623"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2623-1">Charles Cowderry</rs>
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for Himself says<lb></lb>
that He is <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ621">Servant</rs>
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to Mr. Sprang that He was<lb></lb>
sent to watch, the Garden that about half past<lb></lb>
one o'Clock this Morning this Informant saw two<lb></lb>
Men in the Garden Entering under the Glasses of<lb></lb>
the Cucumber Frame that this Informant went<lb></lb>
and calld His Master <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2623-2">Samuel Sprang</rs>
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up that<lb></lb>
his said Master and this Informant went into<lb></lb>
the Garden with a Resolution to take the said<lb></lb>
Men that this Informant calld to the said Men<lb></lb>
and bid them surrender or they would shoot them<lb></lb>
that one of the Men <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2623-3">Thomas Chaddick</rs>
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now pres-<lb></lb>
sent Danm'd their Eyes and bid them shoot away<lb></lb>
that this Informant upon the said Men advance<lb></lb>
ing towards them Shot at one at them that</p>
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