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<p n="2426"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45022_geo967">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45022_n2426-1">George Berner</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45022_date213">6th. day of June 1774</rs>
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<p n="2427">Who being upon Oath says that on Friday Morning last he<lb></lb>
saw three Persons now present who call themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45022_n2427-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Lambeth</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45022_n2427-2">Samuel Ward</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45022_n2427-3">George Wheatley</rs>
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on board this<lb></lb>
Informant's Barge on the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45022_geo968">New Canal</rs>
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near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45022_geo969">Old Ford</rs>
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, that the<lb></lb>
said George Wheatley was at the Helm of the said Barge and<lb></lb>
the said Thomas Lambeth and Samuel Ward were among the<lb></lb>
Sacks of Wheat with which the said Barge was loaded, that<lb></lb>
when this Informant was about the Distance of 150 Yards<lb></lb>
from the said Barge he observed the said Samuel Ward and<lb></lb>
Thomas Lambeth stooping and rising as if they were taking<lb></lb>
Corn out of the said Sacks that when he came to the said<lb></lb>
Barge he found about fifteen of the Said Sacks of Corn untied<lb></lb>
and that there was about a Bushel and half of Wheat in another<lb></lb>
Sack by itself, and this Informant further says that he does<lb></lb>
verily believe the said Thomas Lambeth Samuel Ward and<lb></lb>
George Wheatley did feloniously take the said odd Quantity<lb></lb>
of Wheat out of the other Sacks of Wheat this Informant's<lb></lb>
Property</p>
<p n="2428">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
June 6. 1774}</p>
<p n="2429"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45022_n2429-1">George Berner</rs>
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