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<p n="34">ran away from Capt. Stew. Powell our Commander, and went to <rs type="placeName" id="OA17230805_geo16">New York</rs>
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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 <rs type="placeName" id="OA17230805_geo17">Martinico</rs>
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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 <rs type="placeName" id="OA17230805_geo18">Cruize</rs>
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, I had a Quarrel with the Captain, and went to <rs type="placeName" id="OA17230805_geo19">Jamaica</rs>
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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 <rs type="placeName" id="OA17230805_geo20">Portsmouth</rs>
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,<rs type="date" id="OA17230805_date4">Aug. 26, 1721.</rs>
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<p n="35">Being soon after put into Newgate, when I got out, I got acquainted with <rs type="persName" id="OA17230805_n35-1">John Dyer</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17230805_n35-2">William Duce</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="OA17230805_n35-3">Joseph Rice</rs>
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; with whom, on the <rs type="date" id="OA17230805_date5">27th of April, 1723</rs>
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, I robb'd in the Fields near Chelsea: Then we robbed two Men in the <rs type="placeName" id="OA17230805_geo21">King's Road</rs>
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, between that Place and Buckingham-House; then my Lady Chudleigh's Coach at the same Place; in which Action <rs type="persName" id="OA17230805_n35-4">Joseph Rice</rs>
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was Shot. We then rob'd a Coach in <rs type="placeName" id="OA17230805_geo22">Tottenham Court Road</rs>
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, wherein were two Men, a Woman, and a Child, taking from them Ten Shillings; but <rs type="persName" id="OA17230805_n35-5">John Dyer</rs>
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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 <rs type="placeName" id="OA17230805_geo23">Hampstead Road</rs>
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and took from him Ten Shillings and Six-pence.</p>
<p n="36">After this, I went to a Place called <rs type="placeName" id="OA17230805_geo24">Wansworth</rs>
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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. <rs type="persName" id="OA17230805_n36-1">Edward Wade</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17230805_n36-2">John Meads</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17230805_n36-3">Alexander Garnes</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17230805_n36-4">Christopher Spigget</rs>
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, and my self, attacked four Gentlemen on <rs type="placeName" id="OA17230805_geo25">Gravesend Road</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="OA17230805_n36-5">John Meads</rs>
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shot their Servant in the Breast. The same Night we robed a Man, and the said <rs type="persName" id="OA17230805_n36-6">John Meads</rs>
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shot him too in the Breast; and ordering to go to <rs type="placeName" id="OA17230805_geo26">Gravesend</rs>
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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.</p>
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