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The Information of
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Taken before me this 19th. day of Decr. 1760
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Who being on Oath says That some time abt. July last, observing
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a House in Wilderness Math
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Chelsea
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to be advertised to be sold by
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function, he this Informt. went in Company with one Mrs.
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Ann Gascoigne
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and one Mr.
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in order to see the sd. House, Says that in a
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Time after in agt. a Week as this Informt. believes, the this Informt.
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went to the said House in Company with the aforesd. Mr.
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being the day appointed for the Sale of the said House, says he
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there saw a Person now present who calls himself
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Nicholas
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Campbell
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, who then and there called himself the Proprietor
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of the said Houn, says that one Mr. Gibbons was the
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Auctioner; And this Informt. says that before that day
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to wit the day of the Sale of the said House which was
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about July last, he never Spoke to, Conserved with, had
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any Dealing or Transaction with, of any kind whatsoever
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with the said
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Nicholas Campbell
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, and farther says that
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he does not remember ever, even to have seen him, and
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this Informt. says that on this day he bid about fourscore
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pounds for the said House but that others bidding more
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he had it not, says that in abt. a Week after the afore sd Sale
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he met the said Mr. Campbell in
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who
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Spoke to this Informt. first, and Told him that the House
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was not Said, that he owed the aforesaid Mr. Gibbons
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£160, that if he wou'd lend him forty pounds the shou'd
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be able to pays off, part of the sd. Mortgage and that he
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shou'd have the Houn or a proper Valuation
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says that the next day he carried two £20 Notes
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to the said Campbells House from whom he
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