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<p n="666"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London to wit</note>
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The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n666-1">Robert Stolker</rs>
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, apprehended<lb></lb>
by <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n666-2">Thomas Gates</rs>
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, City Marshal, and brought before e<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n666-3">James Townsend</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15093_occ291">Esquire</rs>
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, one of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n666-4">his Majesty</rs>
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's Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace for the said City Who saith, that he believes<lb></lb>
he is the Son of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n666-5">John Stolker</rs>
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, formerly an Engineer<lb></lb>
and Sureyer at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo617">Barbadoes</rs>
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, and who Examinant understands<lb></lb>
died at<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Martinice when he this Examinant was about<lb></lb>
ten Years of AgoSays, that his Mother then<lb></lb>
removed to Dominica, and he lived with her, untill she<lb></lb>
died about Five Months after the death of his Father<lb></lb>
Says, that after the death of his Mother he went in a<lb></lb>
Brig, commanded by Captain Smith, in Whose Service<lb></lb>
he went to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo618">Barbadoes</rs>
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, New York and other Parts,<lb></lb>
and continued with him about eighteen Months<lb></lb>
Says, That he and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n666-6">Thomas Dargaval</rs>
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came together at<lb></lb>
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Royal in Jamaica, on board the Vigilant Letter<lb></lb>
of Marque, and meeting with two, French Men of War, some<lb></lb>
Shot were exchanged, by one of which he lost his<lb></lb>
right LegSays, that he and Dargaval have since<lb></lb>
been taken Prisoners to Brest, and at Length were<lb></lb>
exchanged by Cartel, and came to Dover about ten<lb></lb>
Months ago, since which he has been in on regular<lb></lb>
Employment, but subsisted chiefly by Charity from<lb></lb>
the Publick, by shewing the Model of the Ship<lb></lb>
now Produced</p>
<p n="667">Taken at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo620">Guild hall</rs>
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London<lb></lb>
the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15093_date89">16th November 1782</rs>
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before me}</p>
<p n="668"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n668-1">James Townsend</rs>
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<p n="669">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n669-1">Robert Stolker</rs>
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