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This Informant being upon his Oath saith that last Night or Early this Morning
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the Harness on his back, and on Lawrence Abells asking him where he was going wth
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the Harness The Man answer'd into
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, Upon which the Watchman
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said he woud not Let him go Until he had given an Accot. of himself to the Constable
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of the night & so he took him to the Watch house telling him that if he had Come
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honestly by the harness he shou'd be set at Liberty, & told him it was his Duty to Stop
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Suspicious persons at Unseasonable Hours in the Night That in the way to the
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to ran away offering him Beer, & other gratuity's to bribe him to let him Escape which
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refused, but brought him into the Watchhouse, And the said
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saw possitively declareth upon his Oath & Saith That he stopt the said Man
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upon a Suspicion he had Stole the said Harness and Still declareth and Saith
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Sworn before me the 21st Day of
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May 1768
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