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Esqr.
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on of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace acting in
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and for the said County this 25th Day of July
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1789
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Who being duly Sworn upon then Oath say &
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hard Ashton for himself sayeth
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had but if he then and a pair of Study now produced when he
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And this Informant Aguis Harrison
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himself Sayeth, that she is Servant to the other Informant
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up in the housethat before she went to Bed
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she locked and botted all the Doors of the sd. House
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Robert Wright
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for himself
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Morning he discovered the street Door of the House
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was not
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shut being only drawn close but not locked upon
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which he immediately alarmed the house and
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And this Informant John Hayney for himself
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sayeth that he is Waster to the other a formant
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Alarm he with
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