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for the said Watches and to the best of this Informant recollection
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delivered to this Informant forty one Silver Watches and this
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Informant paid the said
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Lambert Smith and
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present part of the Time and were well acquainted with the Transaction
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that after the Affair of the Watches was finished the said James
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bean produced a Number of Gold Rings and Gold Barest Buckles
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for which this Informant agreed to give him as much as would
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