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Informations taken this Eleventh day
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of January 1776 at the
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Servant to Mr. Gibbins Hair dresser
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that he has known John Rowbat the Deced about
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One Year & an half, and that they frequently
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Spent their Evening together says that on Monday
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evening last Janry 8th) about five o'Clock his this Dept
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again in about half an hour, and then went with
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deced to a Club at Mr. Jones a
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Drinking until about Eleven o'Clock, That this
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Dept. the Deced, Jacob West Thomas Hanover and
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Mr. Thacker, went away towards home, that
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and went with her to a Publick House in
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Moor's Yard that the others followed, and that
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they drank two pots of Beer there, and then
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went away towards home, That they
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afterwards want to a Publick House the
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Bottom of
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, Strand, and there
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had six penny worth of Gin & Water, that the
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Deced & Jacob West went out and that Dept.
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followed in a Few Minutes and saw then upon
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& by the side of Black Lyon Stairs, that the Deced
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went into one of the Barges there upon the
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River Thomas and Walked over a great many
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of them, Dept got upon the Barge next to Store
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but going no further Deced came back and
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they all went into the Publick House again
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