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in the said County taken
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on Oath before me one of his Majesties
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This Informant maketh Oath and saith that this Day two
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Smiths having had a great loss by the Death of Cattle and
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then and there Shewing severall Books & Papers with Peoples
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names and Sums of Money against them which they pretended
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for ye sd. Smith and others who were Suffered
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by the Loss of Cattle which Books they wou'd not produce before the Justice and the said
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gnes and Cheats, one of the said persons
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Perr
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ness was in Dicoing and Selling of Cattle,
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at first he
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Cattle at Smith field The other Person at first went by the name of
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and in Driving and Selling of Cattle in Smith field
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at first went by some other name but by what name this
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Informant does not Remember
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Sworn before me this
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12th. Day of July 1748]
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