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<p n="85"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx To wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50517_n85-1">Robt. Johnson</rs>
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taken before me this 2d. day of Dec 1762</p>
<p n="86">Who being upon says that he is a Coal Heaser, that he<lb></lb>
lodges in a House next door to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50517_n86-45">Daniel Marles</rs>
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Porter<lb></lb>
and that there is but a thin Lath Partition between their<lb></lb>
Rooms, says that yesterday Morning between five<lb></lb>
and six o Clock,<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
(it being then Moonlight) the<lb></lb>
said Morles Knocks this Informt. up and asked him<lb></lb>
if he wou'd do a Job, says he got up Immediately and<lb></lb>
went to him when Morley emplayed him to carry a<lb></lb>
Sack, the Contents of which he did not then Know<lb></lb>
believes the weight of it was about one hundred<lb></lb>
says he and Morley went together to a Sugar Bekere<lb></lb>
near Coal Stairs whose Name he has since heard<lb></lb>
is <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50517_n86-95">Hance Gay</rs>
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, says that on Knocking at the door<lb></lb>
of the said Hence, said Hance Gay as he believe<lb></lb>
came down in his Shirt & let them in says<del>they</del>
he delivd.<lb></lb>
his Sugar and that he & Morley then went out, that<lb></lb>
soon after they came out they met Wm. Perpraise<lb></lb>
to whom Morley proposed to give a Pint of Hall &<lb></lb>
that they went accordingly to a Public Hence to drink<lb></lb>
it, that in the Meantime said Morley desired this<lb></lb>
Informt. to goe back to his Lodgings and fetch the<lb></lb>
other Sack to the said Sugar Bakers, says he went<lb></lb>
accordingly and carried the other Sack to the said Sugar<lb></lb>
Bakers where he found the door again and said<lb></lb>
Hance Gay waiting at the door, that he carried<lb></lb>
said<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Sack in, when said Say Shut the door and<lb></lb>
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emptied the said Sack as well as the former he had<lb></lb>
carried into a Big<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
when this Informt. saw Act<obscured></obscured>
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Sugar, & that it weighed Two hundred, one Quarter & soon<lb></lb>
odd pounds, says that he then took the two empty Sack<obscured></obscured>
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Carried them to said Morley's Lodgings, says that the said<lb></lb>
Hance Gas went before him to open the door</p>
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