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The Information of
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taken before me this 19th
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day of October 1784.
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Who being upon Oath say, and First the said
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says that in the Night of Friday the 8th: of October instant
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a Number of Persons armed with Pistols and Cutlasses came
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on board the
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lying upon a certain Navigable river
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in the said County called the
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; That two of said
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was then lying in his Cot leaving a third on the outside of the
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a Word they would blow his Brains out and ordered him
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to lie stile; That said Men Robbed said ship of four Trunks
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containing a pair of Paste Knee buckles set in Silver now produced a Silver
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Stock Buckle a Gold Ring a Quantity of Wearing Apparel and other things the
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Property of the said
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William Buncomb
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he is very sure that a person now present who calls himself
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George Wood
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is one of the persons
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that stood at the Cabbin
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Door and Robbed the said Ship; and that he doth verily believe
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SW. from the Voice that a
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person now present who calls himself
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is
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SW. another of the persons who robbed the said Ship that the
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stood in the Cabbin
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threatning to blow his Brains out
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S. W,
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says that he is very sure that the said pair of Paste
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Knee buckles are his property and were Stolen from on board
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the said Ship together with the other Articles as aforesaid.
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And the said Patrick Mc Manus says that on Tuesday evening
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the 12th instant, he apprehended the said
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at the Jolly sailor in
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- That he found in the hand of said Giles one of the
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said Paste Knee Buckles and the other Buckle was lying on the
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