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<p n="3560"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2415">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3560-1">Elisha<lb></lb>
Champion</rs>
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taken before me<lb></lb>
one of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ855">Justices<lb></lb>
of the peace</rs>
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in and for the said<lb></lb>
County</p>
<p n="3561">Who being upon Oath saith that<lb></lb>
on Thursday the Seventh of October<lb></lb>
instant being upon <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2416">Tower Hill</rs>
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he<lb></lb>
was accosted by three men now present<lb></lb>
who calls themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3561-1">Joseph Jeffs</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3561-2">Samuel Smith</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3561-3">John Watts</rs>
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when<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3561-4">Joseph Jeffs</rs>
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asked this Informts.<lb></lb>
what oClock it was the accordingly<lb></lb>
he pulled out his watch to look when<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3561-5">Joseph Jeffs</rs>
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violently snatched<lb></lb>
it from his hand and gave into the other<lb></lb>
person <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3561-6">Samuel Smith</rs>
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when they<lb></lb>
all three went away together with<lb></lb>
his Watch And this Depont. further<lb></lb>
upon his Oath sayth that he is positive<lb></lb>
sure that the three persons abovementioned<lb></lb>
are those who Feloniously took and<lb></lb>
carried away his Watch as above<lb></lb>
related</p>
<p n="3562">Taken and Sworn before me the<lb></lb>
Ninth of October 1784<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3562-1">R Smith</rs>
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<p n="3563"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3563-1">Elizah Champion</rs>
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