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Land lord of
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Grewel Pits taken before me this 3rd. day
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of January 1783
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Who being upon Oath says and first the said
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Benjamin
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says that on Friday Night the 27th. of December last
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to SleepThat
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said Aldridge told him that he might sleep there but that if
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he did, he must sleep with a Man who was gone to Bed
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a Dining Room, in which Room was a Bed and a Person
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in bedThat he locked the Door and went to Bed at
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which time he had in his Pocket sixteen shillings and
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a Silver WatchThat he slept till 5 o Clock the next
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Morning and when he awoke he found himself alone,
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the Door unlocked and wide open and the Person with
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whom he had slept gone, That he searched his Breeches
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and his said Money and Watch was
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also gone
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says that a person now
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came to this
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Informants said Masters House to sleep there (at which
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time she was dressed in Mens Apparel and this Informant
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understand her to be a Man) That She lighted the said
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to Bed in the said Dining Room where she
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slept all NightThat in a Closet in said Dining Room
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were two thread laced Capsa worked Muslin laced Handker-
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-chief a Muslin Apron three other Caps and two
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neck Handkerchiefs That about 5 o Clock in the morning
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the said
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came to this Informant
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and said that he had been robbed of his Watch and
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