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<p n="598"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo448">Middlesex</rs>
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The Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n598-1">Sarah Hunter</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45023_occ118">wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n598-2">William<lb></lb>
Hunter</rs>
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of the Parish of Saint George in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo449">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45023_occ119">mariner</rs>
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taken before me one of his<lb></lb>
Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said County<lb></lb>
this 22nd. day of February 1775.</p>
<p n="599">Who upon her Oath saith that about the hour of one In the night<lb></lb>
of Thursday the Sixteenth day of this Instant February she this<lb></lb>
Informant was in bed in her Apartment in the Dwelling House of<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n599-1">John Henderson</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45023_geo450">Bird Street</rs>
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in the said Parish and that one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n599-2">Elizabeth Tibbell</rs>
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was<lb></lb>
then and there laying in bed together with her when they were greatly<lb></lb>
corufied at the appearance of a Man with a small Lanthorn and<lb></lb>
lighted Candle coming into the Room who was immediatly followed<lb></lb>
by two more Men when two of the Three threw themselves over this <lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Informant and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n599-3">Elizabeth Tibbell</rs>
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as they lay in bed that<lb></lb>
one of them demanded her money this Informant told him she had<lb></lb>
but two Shillings which she gave him and he forthwith returned<lb></lb>
it that the same man took a pair of Silver Shoe Buckles from her<lb></lb>
Shoes and one Stone Ring set in Gold<del>Ring</del>
from her finger and being<lb></lb>
alarmed by<del>a lodger who lived</del>
for the said Henderson's Wife who laid up Stairs over this Informants<lb></lb>
bed Chamber they went down stairs and<del>up</del>
escaped, and that this<lb></lb>
Informant with all speed came down from her Chamber and<lb></lb>
discovered that the said House had been Burglariously and feloniously<del>as</del>
broken and<lb></lb>
entered by the said Three Men And that having seen <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n599-4">Michael<lb></lb>
Connelly</rs>
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otherwise Irish Mick she well remembers him to be<lb></lb>
one of the said men and having seen his Companion Thomas<lb></lb>
Mc Donald she beleives him to be another of them and this Informant<lb></lb>
doth therefore charge the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n599-5">Michael Connelly</rs>
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otherwise Irish<lb></lb>
Mick and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n599-6">Thomas Mc Donald</rs>
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with burglariously and feloniously<lb></lb>
breaking and entering the Dwelling House of<del>her said Husband</del>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n599-7">John Henderson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the Night Time and burglariously and feloniously stealing<lb></lb>
thereout one pair of Silver Shoe Buckles and one Stone Ring<lb></lb>
set in Gold the Property of her said Husband</p>
<p n="600">Sworn the Day and Year first<lb></lb>
aforesaid Before me}<lb></lb>
B Camper</p>
<p n="601">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45023_n601-1">Sarah<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Hunter</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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