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in October last as this Informant was on his Stand in
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Hat or Wig and that it was a frosty Morning, says the
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said Person stopt & Spoke to this Informant asking if he had
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seen a Man run up that Street that this Informant said he
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had not but that he must be a mad man to be running without
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his Hat & Wig, says he has this day seen a person who calls
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himself Robert Williams and that he verily believes the Said
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Robert Williams to be the Man he Saw running without him
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Sworn before me this
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5th. day of January 1776.}
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