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The Information of
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of the same
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place taken before me the 10th. day of October 1783.
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Who being on Oath saith and first the said
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for himself
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saith that on Monday the 6th. Inst. he this Informant had the Keys of
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a Chest of Drawens (in one of which Drawers was a Box that contained a
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Quantity of Money also a Purse containing one hundred and Twenty Guineas
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and several other Coins) from his Mother in Law Mrs. Gibbs, that a Person came
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to the Door and asked for Informant and he this Informant went into
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and said about an hour talking with a friend and left a person
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now present who calls herself Honer cullen, his Mother in Laws servant
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in the Room, that he this Informant left the Keys in said Draws in which
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the Money was deposited. That he this Informant saw the One hundred and
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Twenty Guineas in the Draw the said day-That on wednesday the 8th. Inst.
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this Informant went to said Draw and on Counting the Honey found that
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Ten Guineas had been taken out of said Purse and Draw That Mrs. Gibbs his
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Mother in Law on the Money being Missed challenged the said
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who confessed she had taken Money out of said Draw but did not know
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how much. and the said
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for herself saith that she had
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deposited in a Box in the same Draw about forty Guineas That she this
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Informant saw the said forty Guineas on Monday the 6th. Instant. that on
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Wednesday the 8th. Inst. on this Informants going to said Draw on taking up
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the Box found it was very light and on Examining said Box found there had
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been taken out of said Box Twenty Guineas on which this Informant challenge
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her servant
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who immediately confessed she had taken money
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out of said Box but did not know how much but returned to this Informant
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Eleven Guineas and a half and bigged this Informant not to have her taken
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Sworn before me this
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10th. day of October 1783}
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