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The Information of
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a Vessel in the
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Dublin Trade,
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Commander
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taken before me this 28th. day of June
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1768
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Who being upon Oath says that last Sunday Night about
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11 o'Clock as he was going from a Public House in
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to go to his Ship he was stopped in the
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by a Boy who asked him what he had in his pockets
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that he pushed the said Boy away upon a which a Man came up
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immediately and knocked this Informt. down and helds his hands
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over his face & said that if he spoke a Word he would cut this
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Informant's Throat, and that another person rifled his pockets &
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took out a Guinea Quarter Guinea & some Silver and went
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away, that after some Time a Watchman came to him with whom
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he went to the Watch house, and this Informant further says that
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he does suspect and verily believe that a Boy now present who
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is the same Boy who stopt
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as aforesaid, and that two Men
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now present who call themselves Patrick Barn and
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Samuel
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Cracraft
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are the same two Men who knocked him down and
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robbed him as aforesaid
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Sworn before me
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July 4th. 1768}
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W Kelynge
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his
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Nicholson
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Mark
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