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The Information of
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of ye 1st. Regimint of Fest Guards toll Sebughts Compr
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touching the death of
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taken and acknowledged
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this 19th day of September 1753
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Who Saith that on Tuesday the 28th. day of August last about
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a Quarter of an hour pash Eight o Clock in the Morning This informant
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together with his Comrade
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coming form the Magazine Quard
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he saw a Boy in a Wooler Cap and Brownish Clothes in a
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Walnut tree next the Gap opposite
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who appear'd to be about
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15 Years of Age-That he saw two Men riding thro' the said Gate towards
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the said Tree and that Immediately after
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the said Two Horsemen had
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Pass'd the said Gap near the said Tree where the said Boy was, he saw the
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said Boy standing on his Feet. He further Saith that her saw no Person
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Persons near the said Boy nor near the said Gate except the Paid Two
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Horsemen And that he did not hear any Complaint or Now made by
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The said Boy That he then went out with his Comrade at Grosvenor
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Gate for some Beer and Saw no more of the said Boy.
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taken and Acknowledged
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on Oath before K: Jackson
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