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<p n="778"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Westmr<lb></lb>
To Wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
The Examination and Confession of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50390_n778-1">Katherine</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50390_n778-1" type="surname" value="Ballard"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50390_n778-1" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50390_occ243">Wife</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50390_occ243" type="occupation" value="Wife"></interp>
of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50390_n778-2">Richard Ballard</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50390_n778-2" type="surname" value="Ballard"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50390_n778-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
whose Alaw of Habitation is unknown<lb></lb>
taken and acknowledged before me one of his Majest<obscured></obscured>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50390_occ244">Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace</rs>
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for the said City and Liberty.</p>
<p n="779">This Examinant confesses that on Saturday the<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Novr. the want into the House of me David<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50390_geo480">St. Anne Westmr</rs>
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.<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50390_occ245">Victualler</rs>
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and that She Stole<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
one Copper Tra Kettle which She afterwards carried<lb></lb>
the House of one Mathews a Pawnbrokr<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
pawned the Said Tea Kettle for the Sum of two<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
and Six pence.</p>
<p n="780">This Confession having been first said over<lb></lb>
to the Said Katherine was by her<lb></lb>
acknowledge to be freely and voluntarily made<lb></lb>
before me on the seventh of Novr. 1748.</p>
<p n="781">F Frilding</p>
<p n="782">The Mark<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Katherine<obscured></obscured>
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