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The Information of
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on Oath the Eleventh day of December 1789 before
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Who Saith that on Monday night the Seventh of December
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Instant between Eleven and twelve OClock he was going
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two of them Crossed the way and went up to Porter and
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Struk him with a Stick immediately Informant called
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out Bill what's the matter, then another man came
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up to this Informant and seized held of him, and
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Informant threw him down, Then he call out again
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to Bill and said he had get him down but received
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no Answer, the man he had down hollowed out, and
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then a Person came up to him and cut him with
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some thing like a Cutlass
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which he took from under his Cloaths, then he was
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Struck again upon his Cheek by another with a
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Stick, The blows he received from them quite
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made him senseless for some time and soon after he
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saw two of them go away and found he had been
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Robbed of two Shillings out of his Breeches Pockett
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now under Examination are two of the men that ill
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treated and Robbed him in manner abovementioned
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Taken And Sworn
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the Day and Year
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