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himself further Saith that about eleven O Clock in the
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prenoon on the said Sixteenth day of December his Survey
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another Couch of Corn which had been sleeped for the Making
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thereof into Matt in the second house of the sd & Dt that he found it
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Mary hand close and Compact that he guaged the Corn
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therein and found it to contain only 134 Bushells Shalf
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Nine lenths of a Buchells that about nine O Clock the
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proceeding evening he this Deponent had guaged the same
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Couch of Corn and found it then to contain 138 Buchells
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and 2 tenths of a Bushell of Corn that he is very
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that it must have been brad an and pressed down
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there two guage as it guaged 12 Bushells less than
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the guaged it an the evening before where as of ought
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12 bushells less than the Officers Gage of the same Corn on the Custom the
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Evening before whereas it on gold in
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fairness to have increased that the whole quantity of
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or Grain in the said two Couches
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to 168 D
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And the said Abraham Ayton being now have called
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upon by in the said Justices for his defence in the
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premises and together came to us Why he should not
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he Convicted of the premises above laid to his charged
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thereupon an the same day and Year last aforesaid
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at
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afsd in the County aforesaid he
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the said
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Praduceth to and before
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in the said Justices one
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William Stacey
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of him
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the said Abraham Ayton and also a Credible Witness in this
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behalf an the part of the said Abraham Ayton And the said
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an his Corporal Oath an the Holy wangeles to
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of God now here administered where by us the said
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Justices
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the said Justices having Competent
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and Authority to administer such Oath to him in this
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behalf Deposeth and Saith in the premises as follows
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Street he is a Servant to the Defendant who is a Mass
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