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ran away from Capt. Stew. Powell our Commander, and went to
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; from whence I sailed out in the Station of a Foremast-man, on Board the George Sloop, Capt. Abline Commander. I ran away from the said Sloop, and went to
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, and sailed there in the Station of a Linguist for the French Tongue, in a Trading Vessel. Soon after going in another Sloop to
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, I had a Quarrel with the Captain, and went to
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, and lived there a Year in Quality of a Clerk, but was then press'd on Board his Majesty's Ship Mary, Capt. Vernon Commander; belong'd to it fifteen Months, and was Paid off at
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Being soon after put into Newgate, when I got out, I got acquainted with
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, I robb'd in the Fields near Chelsea: Then we robbed two Men in the
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, between that Place and Buckingham-House; then my Lady Chudleigh's Coach at the same Place; in which Action
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was Shot. We then rob'd a Coach in
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, wherein were two Men, a Woman, and a Child, taking from them Ten Shillings; but
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broke the Woman's Head with his Pistol for her Tongue, and carried away her Head-Cloaths. We then rob'd a Man in a Coach on
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, and worked with one Cladins, a poor honest Man, till my Wife was taken up in order to make her discover where I was, and hereupon sent to Clerkenwell Bridewell; and I was forced to leave my Place, and return to Robbing.
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; after mounted on his Horse, he turn'd his Horse the other way from whence he came, and shot the Man a second time in the Face, the Bullet lodging in his Neck; so that I hear he is Dead.
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