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<p n="1579"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1028">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1579-1">George Biggs</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1579-2">Joseph Levy</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me this 13th. day of August 1781</p>
<p n="1580">Who being upon Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1580-1">George Biggs</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for himself says that on Friday Night last he went to a House<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1029">Goodman's Fields</rs>
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with a Woman now present who calls herself<lb></lb>
Martha Mc. Carthy, that he went to Bed and the said Martha Mr. Carthy<lb></lb>
lay on the Bed, that when he awoke in the Morning he examined<lb></lb>
his Pockets and found that a Handkerchief now produced and<lb></lb>
nineteen pounds and upwards in Money had been stolen from him, that<lb></lb>
he charged the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1580-2">Martha Mc Carthy</rs>
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with having his Handkerchief<lb></lb>
and she denied it, that he is very sure he had the said Money<lb></lb>
in his Pocket and also the Handkerchief when he went into the<lb></lb>
Room with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1580-3">Martha Mc Carthy</rs>
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, that he does not know<lb></lb>
of any other person being in the said Room except the Said<lb></lb>
Martha Mc. Carthy and<del>the Es</del>
himself form the Time he went<lb></lb>
to Bed to the Time of his Missing the Money and Handkerchief<lb></lb>
and he does verily believe the said Martha Mc. Carthy stole<lb></lb>
his said Money and Handkerchief, and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1580-5">Joseph Levy</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for himself says that when he was sent for to take the said<lb></lb>
Martha Mc. Carthy into Custody he searched her and found the said<lb></lb>
Handkerchief now produced in the said Martha Mc. Carthy's Pocket</p>
<p n="1581">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
August 13. 1781}</p>
<p n="1582"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1582-1">John Staples</rs>
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<p n="1583">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1583-1">George<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Biggs</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
<p n="1584"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1584-1">Joseph Levy</rs>
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