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23d. day of June 1758
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, and says that the said Dorrington
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then Told this Informant that same Person had Stell a
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Silver Tankard out of his House the Night before, and that
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he described to this this Infomt. the Person whom he suspected
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to have stole it, and this Informt. farther says that he then
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Told the said Dorrington, that a Person had Attempted
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same Night, and this Informt. farthers says, that he has
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since seen a Person (nowing Custody) who calls himself
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whom he verily Believes to he the
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Identical Person, who Attempted to Steal his Tankard
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as aforesaid, And this Informant farther says that the
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Person who Attempted to Steal his Tankard as aforesd.
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appeared by his Dialect, to be a North County Mom and
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that, he know this Informants Formily, several of
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Sworn before me this
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