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<p n="2057"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45012_geo1004">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2057-1">Edward Hamilton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45012_occ302">Esqr</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2057-2">James Bolland</rs>
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taken before me<lb></lb>
this 28th. day of September 1768</p>
<p n="2058">Who being upon Oath severally say and first the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2058-1">Edwd. Hamilton</rs>
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for himself says that he desired one Mr. Barton<lb></lb>
who was coming from Inn bridge to acquaint Mr. Grieeves<lb></lb>
that he shod. be in Town on the 20 Inst. and likewise desired said<lb></lb>
Mr. Barton to enquire after the safety of his goods says he<lb></lb>
read a Lether from sd. Mr. Barton informing him that he had seen Mrs.<lb></lb>
Greaves and that all his goods were safe and shod. be delivered <lb></lb>
as he left them says that when he arrived on Tuesday the 20th<lb></lb>
accordingly he found that said Griceveses house had been burnt<lb></lb>
down says he saw Mrs. Grieeves the same Evening who told him<lb></lb>
that all his Effect except what was in Mr. Bolland's hands<lb></lb>
and saved out of the Fire sere burnt say she particularly asked her<lb></lb>
after two Shirts which he had left in her Care to be ruffled and the to the<lb></lb>
told him they were burnt likewise says that two days afterwards<lb></lb>
not only found the same two Shirts but many other of his Effects<lb></lb>
Pawned by said Grieeves and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2058-2">James Bolland</rs>
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for himself saith<lb></lb>
that after the aforesaid Fire happened he heard said Mr. Grieeves<lb></lb>
declare that also her own Goods and Cloaths wee burnt and<lb></lb>
farther says that he has cause to suspect and does suspect and believe<lb></lb>
that the said Mr. Grieeves wilfully set her house on Fire says<lb></lb>
the Particularly desired to have the Appraising over on Monday because<lb></lb>
them.<obscured></obscured>
ted <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2058-3">Coll Hamilton</rs>
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in Town on the Tuesday and farther says<lb></lb>
that it appeased to from that wark part of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2058-4">Coll Hamilton</rs>
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's goods<lb></lb>
has been Pawned by Mrs. Grieeve between the 29:of Augt. and 12th.<lb></lb>
of Sepr.</p>
<p n="2059"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2059-1">Edwd. Hamilton</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45012_n2059-2">James Bolland</rs>
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<p n="2060">Sworn before one<lb></lb>
Septr. 28. 1768</p>
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