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The Confession
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Examination and Information of
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Who being duly sworn confesseth and saith that he in Company
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with one
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and a Man who is called
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Carrotty Bob
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at about
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twelve o'Clock in the night of Wednesday the eleventh Day of November
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instant feloniously stole took and carryed away out of a Barge
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which (he now find's belonged to a Mr. Drew a Wharf
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at the
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a drift near
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, eight large Pig's of Lead which they
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Sold to one Payne a Dealer in old Proper & Iron near
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the same
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Night, for four Guineas, that this
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Said Carrotty Bob then went to a Mrs. King's in
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two Pots of Court together staid there about two Hours &
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he this Informant came away & left the other two
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behind him, that they all three must to gether the next duly at
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, & from
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thence to a Public Hance he believes the
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where Mr. Payne paid them, that
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in their way
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at an Alehouse by a Turnpike near
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they all three called in and got change for a Guinea
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& this Examinant further saith that in the Night aforesaid
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he by himself stole ten Pigs of Lead out of the Barge
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aforesaid which he sold six to the said Mr Payne three to
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one Needham who lives next door to him and one the said
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& Carrotty Bob disposed of as this Examinant
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believes to the said Needham. And lastly this Examinant
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Saith that the said Needham and Payne
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bought and
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