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<p n="2634"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1786">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
The Information of Sarah the Wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2634-2">Thomas<lb></lb>
Ball</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2634-3">John Birds</rs>
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eye taken before me this<lb></lb>
14th. day of June 1784</p>
<p n="2635">Who being upon Oath say and frist the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2635-1">Sarah Ball</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
herself says that on Wednesday Night last or very early on Thursday<lb></lb>
Morning her said Husband's House was broke open and robbed of<lb></lb>
several Table Cloths Towels Shirts and other things now produced the<lb></lb>
property of her said Husband and also a Leg of Mutton And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2635-2">John Bridseye</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
himself says that he is one of the Watchmen of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1787">parish of St.<lb></lb>
George</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1788">Hanover Square</rs>
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that a Thursday Morning last about 25 Minutes<lb></lb>
past 2 o'Clock <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2635-3">William Horton</rs>
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now present and two young Men passed<lb></lb>
by this Informants Watch Box near the Corner of Flask Lane and<lb></lb>
spoke to this Informant, that about 3 o'Clock the same three Persons<lb></lb>
passed this Informant again at which time one of them was carrying<lb></lb>
a Leg of Mutton and another of them was carrying a Bundle containing<lb></lb>
the above mentioned Table Cloths Towels Shirts and other things which<lb></lb>
two Persons made their Escape and that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2635-4">William Horton</rs>
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now<lb></lb>
present was in Company with them but this Informant did not<lb></lb>
see him carrying any thing, And these Informants further say<lb></lb>
that they do verily believe tha the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2635-5">William Horton</rs>
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now present<lb></lb>
and the other two persons who escaped are the Persons who<lb></lb>
broke open the said House and stole the said Goods</p>
<p n="2636">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
June 14. 1784}</p>
<p n="2637"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2637-1">G Gennings</rs>
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<p n="2638"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2638-1">Sarah Ball</rs>
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<p n="2639">his<lb></lb>
John<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Birdseye<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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