<div1 type="SL_PSpage" id="LMSLPS15093PS150930078"> <xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="LMSLPS150930078"></xptr>
<p n="298"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo279">London</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_geo279" type="placeName" value="London"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_geo279" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
</note>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n298-1">Tho King</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_n298-1" type="given" value="Tho"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_n298-1" type="surname" value="King"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_n298-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<lb></lb>
agt.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n298-2">Jacob Levis</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_n298-2" type="given" value="Jacob"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_n298-2" type="surname" value="Levis"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_n298-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
}<lb></lb>
Indicted for Assaulting<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n298-3">Benjamin Franklin</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_n298-3" type="given" value="Benjamin"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_n298-3" type="surname" value="Franklin"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_n298-3" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
.</p>
<p n="299"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n299-1">Thomas Champante</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_n299-1" type="given" value="Thomas"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_n299-1" type="surname" value="Champante"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_n299-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo280">John Street</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_geo280" type="placeName" value="John Street"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_geo280" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo281">Crutched Fryars</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_geo281" type="placeName" value="Crutched Fryars"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_geo281" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
London<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15093_occ126">Gentleman</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_occ126" type="occupation" value="Gentleman"></interp>
<obscured></obscured>
the Twenty ninth day of May last he<lb></lb>
this Depon<obscured></obscured>
and did see <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n299-2">Benjamin Franklin</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_n299-2" type="given" value="Benjamin"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_n299-2" type="surname" value="Franklin"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_n299-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
the<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
in the<obscured></obscured>
Seal and as his Act and Died<lb></lb>
deliver the within written release and that the Name Benj<lb></lb>
Franklin sighed and Subscribed opposite to the Seal affixed to<lb></lb>
the said Release as the Party executing the same is the proper hand Writing of the said Benjamin<lb></lb>
Franklin And this Deponent saith that the Name <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n299-4">Bart. Hyams</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_n299-4" type="given" value="Bart"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_n299-4" type="surname" value="Hyams"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_n299-4" type="gender" value="unknown"></interp>
<lb></lb>
set and subscribed to the said Release as one of the Witness<lb></lb>
attesting the Executor's thereof is the proper Hand Writing of<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n299-5">Bart Hyams</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_n299-5" type="given" value="Bart"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_n299-5" type="surname" value="Hyams"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_n299-5" type="gender" value="unknown"></interp>
And lastly this Deponent saith that<lb></lb>
the name Thos Champante also set and subscribed to the said<lb></lb>
Release as<obscured></obscured>
the other of the Witnessss attesting the Executors<lb></lb>
thereof is the Proper hand in Writing and Name of this Deponent</p>
<p n="300">Sworn at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo282">Guildhall</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_geo282" type="placeName" value="Guildhall"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_geo282" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo283">London</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_geo283" type="placeName" value="London"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_geo283" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15093_occ127">At the General</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_occ127" type="occupation" value="At the General"></interp>
<lb></lb>
Quarter Session of the peace for the<lb></lb>
said City on Monday the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15093_date42">1st day<lb></lb>
of July 1782</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_date42" type="date" value="17820701"></interp>
}</p>
<p n="301"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n301-1">Thos Champante</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_n301-1" type="given" value="Thos"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_n301-1" type="surname" value="Champante"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15093_n301-1" type="gender" value="unknown"></interp>
</p>
<p n="302">By the Court</p>
</div1>

View as Text