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15th. day of
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February 1785
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Southwark
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That on a Thursday
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Night in the Month of September last about 7 or 8 o'Clock in the
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, came to this Informant's
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House together and brought with them two Bags containing
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a great Quantity of Dollars, shortly after which her Husband
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in his House with the two Bays contain-
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ing Dollars which they counted in Informant's presence and
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amounted as he believes to 2000. That they then put them
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into said Bags again and carried them into Informants
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Miles
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came in the Evening to this Informant's house and
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said that they were come to take away the two Bays
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which he Church and
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, had left, that they went
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into this informant's Garden and shortly after returned with
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the two Bags containing the Dollars, which they took away
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but to where he cannot say. And the said
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further says that on the Tuesday following the Day on which they
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brought and hid the Dollars as aforesaid she believes, the said
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