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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15054_n1-1">William Saunders</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
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London <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15054_occ1">Cordwainer</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
Me one of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15054_occ2">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
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and liberties thereof the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15054_date3">29th.<lb></lb>
of December 1742</rs>
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<p n="2">This Information on his Oath Saith that last Night about five o'Clock<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15054_n2-1">Jacob Freeman</rs>
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deceas'd and the Prisioner<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Freeman wife of<lb></lb>
the said Jacob & this Information were in one Room together in Sea coah went<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15054_n2-2">Jacob Freeman</rs>
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being much in Liquor and<lb></lb>
qurrell'd with his said Wife about Pawnig of Cloathes<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15054_n2-6">Elizabeth </rs>
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arose from the Seat where on she sat<lb></lb>
and took this Informants knife to cut a peace of Bread<lb></lb>
off a Loaf that as that Instant of time when she the said<lb></lb>
Elizabeth having the Breach in one Hand and the Knife in<lb></lb>
the other, the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15054_n2-4">Jacob Freeman</rs>
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fell upon his said Wife<lb></lb>
with both his Hands beat her and pull'd her hair, that her<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15054_n2-5">Jacob Freeman</rs>
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then immediately receiv'd a Wounds on<lb></lb>
his Breast by the Knife which she said Elizabeth held in her hand<lb></lb>
and cry'd out Will (meaning this Informant) Iam a Dead Man<lb></lb>
I am stabbed an do never spoke more but died in this Informants<lb></lb>
Anns in a for Minutes after, but whether the said Jacob<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
the knife Cor whether the said Elizabeth willfully stabbed lun<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
in this Informant cannot say</p>
<p n="3">Sworn the Day & Year<lb></lb>
first abovewritten before Me}</p>
<p n="4"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15054_n4-1">Robt. Willimott</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15054_occ3">Mayor</rs>
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<p n="5"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15054_n5-1">William Sunders</rs>
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