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taken before me this 16th. day of October 1782
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Who being upon Oath says that about a Quarter before one
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oClock this day, a person now present who calls herself
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together with another Woman came into his Mistresse's Shop
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Hannah Williams
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bought some Cloth of him and
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. That immediately
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the corner of
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, at which
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time they were joined by a third Woman, That on seeing this
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and the other two Women
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throw a pair
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soon afterwards a Black Boy (whom this Informants
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doth not know) brought him another pair of silk stockings
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now produced, which he said he had seen a Woman drop.
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Sworn before me this
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16th. day of October 1782}
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