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The Examination and Confession of
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whose Alaw of Habitation is unknown
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taken and acknowledged before me one of his Majest
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for the said City and Liberty.
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This Examinant confesses that on Saturday the
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Novr. the want into the House of me David
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Parish of
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and that She Stole
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one Copper Tra Kettle which She afterwards carried
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the House of one Mathews a Pawnbrokr
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pawned the Said Tea Kettle for the Sum of two
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and Six pence.
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This Confession having been first said over
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to the Said Katherine was by her
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before me on the seventh of Novr. 1748.
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