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The Information of
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of December 1742
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This Information on his Oath Saith that last Night about five o'Clock
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deceas'd and the Prisioner
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Freeman wife of
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the said Jacob & this Information were in one Room together in Sea coah went
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being much in Liquor and
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qurrell'd with his said Wife about Pawnig of Cloathes
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that the said
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arose from the Seat where on she sat
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and took this Informants knife to cut a peace of Bread
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off a Loaf that as that Instant of time when she the said
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Elizabeth having the Breach in one Hand and the Knife in
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the other, the said
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fell upon his said Wife
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with both his Hands beat her and pull'd her hair, that her
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then immediately receiv'd a Wounds on
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his Breast by the Knife which she said Elizabeth held in her hand
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and cry'd out Will (meaning this Informant) Iam a Dead Man
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I am stabbed an do never spoke more but died in this Informants
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Anns in a for Minutes after, but whether the said Jacob
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the knife Cor whether the said Elizabeth willfully stabbed lun
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in this Informant cannot say
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Sworn the Day & Year
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first abovewritten before Me}
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