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but that She found the Room door open and there
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was nothing remaining in the Room except her Shoes, which
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She returned and Told her Mistress, who said then She is run away
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as did the Daughter who was then present, that She this Informt.
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then answered, then She is run without Shoes to which the
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Mistress replied Oh She wou'd not stay for her Shoes,
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says that no enquiry was ever made after the said Girl and
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these Informant's say that they were at that time and tile
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the Apprehending of their said Mistress persuaded that it was
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might have run away as
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was Industriously reported by the Mistress, but that they
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were very much alarmed about a Week after
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the pretended running away
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seeing in
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the House
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a new Shift which was the Identical Shift
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the Girl had on at the time it was pretended she run away as
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aforesaid and that they did not miss any part of her Cloaths-
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and these Informants farther say that for these reasons-
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Joined to other circumstances since come to their Knowledge
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they do verily believe that the said in the House and that her
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Doath they are very sure was occasioned by being Beat and starved
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in manner aforesaid, and say that both their Mistress and her Daughter
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were equally Guilty of the Barbarity with which She was Treated
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for that she was beat and Tyed up in manner aforesaid by the
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Daughter with the knowledge and Consent of the Mother, and that
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when She
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hath been stared
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and kept from Victuals as well as these Informants by the Mother
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the Daughter alway shad it in her Power to have given them
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Victuals, but that in general the Mistress used them with more
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Cruelty than the Daughter, and these Informants say
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