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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50516_n5-1">Tho Roberts</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50516_n5-99">Martha Swords</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50516_n5-2">Will Prudey</rs>
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taken before me one of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50516_occ2">Justices of the<lb></lb>
peace</rs>
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for the said County.</p>
<p n="6">Who being Jointly & sevly on Oath say and first the Inf <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50516_n6-1">Tho Roberts</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
himself saith That on Wednesday last on <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50516_n6-23">Rob. Kebel</rs>
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left<lb></lb>
in the Tap soon of his Inf a Such coulg half a hundred weight<lb></lb>
of Susu & a Parcel of Herrings which he was to send to Egham<lb></lb>
in Sury and about one in the afternoon a Person now present<lb></lb>
who calls him self <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50516_n6-2">Jas Paterson</rs>
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with a woman (as this Inf bels.<lb></lb>
the person now Preset who calls himself his Wife) came<lb></lb>
into the Inf house & had a Pint of Beer & soon went away &<lb></lb>
this Inf Imediately mised the sd Parcels & pursued the sd<lb></lb>
Man but sd. nor them find him but on his Return home he<lb></lb>
was Informed that a Soldier had left a Parcel at the Don of the<lb></lb>
other Inf Prudey & had ran away and upon this Inf going thru he<lb></lb>
found the Parcel of<obscured></obscured>
Gor which had been stole out of his home<lb></lb>
afsd and then Inf Martha Swords for herself saith that on the<lb></lb>
Wednesday afternoon she saw a person now present who<lb></lb>
calls himself Jas Paterson sit down a such or the Bent<lb></lb>
at the other Inf sd Prudey door & raw away & the Inf went in<lb></lb>
& told Mr Prudey thereof and further saith that soon after the<lb></lb>
said Paterson came by and this Inf ran into the sd. Prudey house<lb></lb>
and told Ann and these Inft. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50516_n6-3">Tho Roberts</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50516_n6-25">Wm. Prudey</rs>
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Jointly say<del>farther<lb></lb>
says</del>
that upon the Information of the sd. Martha they came out<lb></lb>
of the house & they with and Person seized the sd. Jams. & soon<lb></lb>
after a woman<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the person now present came to and Claimed<lb></lb>
the sd. Jams. as her husband & had under her Ann a Parcel of Herrings<lb></lb>
which is the sd. Parcel stole from this Inf & the Inf. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50516_n6-4">Tho:<lb></lb>
Roberts</rs>
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further saith than the sd. Parcel she had under her<lb></lb>
Arm is the parcel of Herring stole from him & as he bels. by them<lb></lb>
the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50516_n6-5">James Paterson</rs>
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&<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50516_n6-58"> Ann</rs>
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<p n="7">Sworn the 22d day of Nov.<lb></lb>
1762 before me}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50516_n7-1">Saunders Welch</rs>
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<p n="8"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50516_n8-1">Thos Roberts</rs>
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<p n="9">The mark of<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50516_n9-56">Martha Swords</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50516_n9-1">Wm. Pruday</rs>
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