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in the said County
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Mariner
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on her Oath says on the 4th:
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day of June 1786, about the hour of Seven in the evening she and her said Husband left their
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said house to go on board of Shiss at which time the Doors and Windows were all fast
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That she went home for clean things on the Tuesday following about the hour of Twelve
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at noon. says the out side Gardengate was hapsed that she attempted to put the Key into
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the said Door
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came open-she haps she found on the Kitchen floor-Says the first thing she missed was
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a Looking Glass in a Mohogany trame-She Chairs were all in a heap round the
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fire place-which so alarmed her that she run to her mothers near who she told
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that their house had been broken open and
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Stripped-That she and her Sciter ha
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mah
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Wlth went with her to Examine the house further when she found a Flounce
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petty coot on the Stairs belonging to a Gown of hers in posession of Mr Dobson the
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Pawnbroker-That the Drawers were about the Room and were empty. That the Bed Two Bols
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Two Pillows Three pair of Sheets. One Blanket One Blue Rug One White Cotton Counterpi
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Two Dozen and half of Linnen Clouts, Two Under Petty coats. One Marseill a
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Pettycoat, One Silk Gown and Three
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Printed Cotton gowns One Bed Gown Three
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White Limen Aprons One Check Apron Two Limen Shifts. One pair Shift Sappers
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One pair of Womans Leather Shoes with Silver Buckles four pair of Cotton and
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Worsted Stockings one pair of Silk and Worsted stocking Four Check Shirts
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Three Linner Shirts, One pair of Nankeen Breeches One pair of White Tustian Breeches
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One
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enela Waistcoat One Yallow Cloth Coat Two double Handkerchiefs two hats taken away the property of her said Husband which were
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all safe in the said House at the Time she and her husband left their house
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on the said 4th. day of June as aforesaid
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Mary Kidd
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Further Says al
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the Articles produced by
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Thomas Dobion
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use he
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nds property and taken out of his said house between the hour of Seven in the Evening
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of Whit sunday and Tuesday noon foll
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John Fletcher
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new Gravel Lane
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on his Oath Says on the first Sunday
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after Whitsunday last he with
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John Orange
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Thomas Cole
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went to a house in Perry win
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le Stesh
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Ratcliff
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on an Information that
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William Sherburd
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lodged at a house in a Lower apartment
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That they went into a back Room in the said house where One Brock a Waterman lived The
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foreroom was locked-That they searched the Apartment of the said Brock did not find
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any thing there which
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Mary Kidd
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Owned-Says that the said Brock told him a Young
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man a Shoemaker lodged in the foreroom and had not been at home all night
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That he then broke open the door of the said Room and searched it and found a piece of
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a Gown which the said
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Mary Kidd
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said was a piece cut off her Gown that she was
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robbed off-That he brought the same away but the said
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Mary Kidd
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demanding
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the same he gave it to somebody to give That he likewise found in the said Room a pair of
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Muslin Gloves which Mrs. Kidd claimed as hers saying she knowed them having
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made them herself but when before the Magistrate had not know them-Says the
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same day in the Evening he went to
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where he found
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the person present who says her name is
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Elizabeth
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Thomas Ransom
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who he took into Custody. and when Mrs. Kidd saw her she claimed as her
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property a Muslin handkerchief the said Mrs. Ransom had on that he took the same
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off her Neck and kept it some time until it was demanded on him whether she
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delivered the same to Mr. or Mrs. Kidd death not at present neco Clest, says the Handkerchief produced is like
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that which tee took off the neck of the said Elizabeth Rancom Says on Saturday
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last about the hour of Eight in the Morning he
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Thomas Cole
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<
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</
lb
>
and
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George Torresler
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apprehended
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Thomas Ransom
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inst
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and
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William Sherburd
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<
lb
>
</
lb
>
in a Little house of Two Rooms in the
<
obscured
>
</
obscured
>
me Garding in which he found the Cintre bit produced in
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lb
>
</
lb
>
Sherburds Yestment-That in Rensoms apartment near they did not find any
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
thing to crininaty them
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p
>
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p
n
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Sworn
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lb
>
</
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>
the
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16 Oct 1786
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>
</
lb
>
Before me
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rs
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John Staples
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>
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inst
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>
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>
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</
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</
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>
<
p
n
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>
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John Fletcher
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</
p
>
</
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>
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