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The Information of Mrs.
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Taken before
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Who being upon Oath says that on Sunday the 7th..
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of June last a Person now present who calls himself
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came to this Informant's House with Mr. Ashley
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and Mr. Staples a
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to Hire a Lodging for said Steel, says said Ashley
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and Staples gave him a Character to this Informant
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says that on Saturday the 13th of said Month of June about
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five o Clock in the Evening the said Steel Rode out upon a
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Horse belonging to her
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Mr. Watkins the
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and that he returned home a little after 11 the same Evening
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says that when he thus Rode out, he was dressed in a
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blue Surtout Coat and a narrow Gold Lace Hatt now produced
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says that on the Friday following this Informant was out in the
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Afternoon and at her return the same Evening She was Informed
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that said Steel was Rode out again, and says that said Steel did not return that Night, but
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returned on the Saturday Night about 11 o Clock with the aforesaid
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Horse at which time he was dressed in a plain Hatt and blue
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Surtout Coat, says that on the Monday Morning following the said
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no more, says that after said Steel was gone She saw the Public
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advertiser of that day which her maid had fetched for said Steel
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before he went, in which said Steel appeared to the advertised as
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