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Image 87 of 2146th February 1769


Middlesex To wit

The Information of Joseph Burton Burton< no role > and William
Benton
< no role > taken before me this 6th. day of
February 1769

Who being on Oath severally say and first the said Joseph Burton< no role >
for himself says that a Box containing a Quantity ofGoodesDrugs
the property of Messrs. Coney & Co. was feloniously taken and
carried away off of Glasgow whart last Saturday Senight, that on the
Monday following he saw the said Box in the Custody of
William Benton< no role > no present Servant to Mr. Strange the
Keeper of Bridewell in Surry, and the said William Benton< no role > .
for himself says that he found the said Box on the said
Saturday near Tower hill in the Possession of a person now
present who calls himself James Best< no role > and that the said
James Best< no role > was in Company with me Abrahams and that he
the said William Benton< no role > apprehended them both

Sworn before me
February 6. 1769 .}

Joseph Burton< no role >

Wm. Benton< no role >

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