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this Third
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Day of November 1778. Who being duly Sworn Severally upon
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for himself saith that
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he is a Carter to Mr. Sheppard Gardner in the Kings Road Chelsea
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That about Three o'Clock on Tuesday Morning last the 28th
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October. as he was going to take his Masters Cart to
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she was terribly wounded about her head and face, and with
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very little signs of Life. and he asked her what she did there,
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, and informed him what he
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had seen and requested the said Penny feather to go with him to
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her assistance - that they went and found her in the same situ
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an other Watchman at the
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feather for himself saith
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, that
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a little after Three o'clock on Tuesday Morning last the 28th; Day of
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October -
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came to him and told him a Person had
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been Robbd and murdered and thrown into a Ditch in Robinsons
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Lane, and that he could not be satisfied until he this Informant
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had been with him to see - that he went and found it was
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a Mulatto Woman dreadfully wounded about the Head and face-
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that he preceived she was not quite dead - that he this Informant
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and Cannon then went to call one
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an other
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Watchman and then Cannon left them and went about his busi
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=ness that he Pennyfeather and Glover went and took her
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to the bottom of the Lane - then he Pennyfeather went to his
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Duty.
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. That on Tuesday
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Morning last the 28th,, Day of October a little before Four o'Clock
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feather came to him and told
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him that a Poor Woman was laying in Robinsons Lane almost
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