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of Fourteen Guineas in Gold and Ten Shillings in Silver
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are three of the five woeman who stopped and Robbed
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Henry Solomon
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This Informant Benjamin Ealy Saith that he lives in Gun
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and two other woemen in their Company in a house
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Taken and Sworn the
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11th. day of February
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1788 before me}
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