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<p n="797"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo607">Middlesex</rs>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n797-1">Samuel<lb></lb>
Harrison</rs>
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Clerk to Messrs. Appleton<lb></lb>
& Sedgwick of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo608">America</rs>
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Square<lb></lb>
Cornfactors taken upon<lb></lb>
Oath before me one of His Majesty's<lb></lb>
Justices of the peace in and for the<lb></lb>
said County this fifteenth Day of<lb></lb>
April One Thousand seven hundred<lb></lb>
and eighty three;</p>
<p n="798">Who saith that he this Informant on Monday<lb></lb>
the third Day of March last enclosed in a Letter<lb></lb>
directed to Mr. George <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n798-1">Rusher Colchester</rs>
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two Bank<lb></lb>
Notes of the Description and Value following, Vizt.,<lb></lb>
One No. 39 dated 19th Feby 1783 for Thirty Pounds<lb></lb>
payable to S Harling; and the other, No. B 50<lb></lb>
dated 28th. Jany. 1783 for Twenty Pounds payable<lb></lb>
to Messrs. Walpole & Co.That he This Informant<lb></lb>
sealed the said Letter and about the Hour of Seven<lb></lb>
o'Clock in the Evening of the said third Day of March<lb></lb>
put the same with the said Bark Notes therein<lb></lb>
enclosed into the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo609">General Post Office</rs>
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London And this<lb></lb>
Informant further saith that he hath arefully looked<lb></lb>
at and examined the Bank Note now produced and<lb></lb>
appearing to be numbered No. B. 59 dated 28th. Jany<lb></lb>
1783 for Twenty Pounds Payable to Messrs. Walpole & Co.<lb></lb>
And this Informant doth verily believe that the same<lb></lb>
is one of the Bank Notes which this Informant so<lb></lb>
enclosed in the said Letter as aforesaid and that the Number<lb></lb>
thereof hath since that Time been altered And this Informant<lb></lb>
further saith he hath been informed and verily believes that<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n798-2">George Rusher</rs>
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never received the said Letter<lb></lb>
and Bank Notes or either of them.</p>
<p n="799">Taken and sworn the Day and Year<lb></lb>
first abovesaid before me}</p>
<p n="800"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n800-1">Sampn Wright</rs>
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<p n="801"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n801-1">Sam Harrison</rs>
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