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of the thigh of one of the Sheep which they had cut some off
to eat, that was given by the said Jeremiah Williams to this
Examinants Fathers Negroes) That the Tuesday after Whit-
Sunday the said Jeremiah Williams John Jones Mark Elliott
and this Examinant went up to a Plantation belonging to this
Examinants Father at the Eastern Branch of Patowmack and
took from the said Plantation upwards of three hundred
Pounds of Tobacco & Carried to a Tobacco house belonging
to Mary Elliott Mother in Law to the said Jeremiah Williams
which Tobacco the said Jeremiah Williams Promised to make
this Examinant Satisfaction for, But that Jeremiah Williams
Informed the said Mark Elliott that he bought the Tobacco of
this Examinant, That some time after the said Jeremiah
Williams and John Jones acquainted this Examinant that
Major Henry Hall had a large Store of Goods and that they
were Sure they had Keys that would open the Locks of the
Store house That in the Night he this Examinant and the said
John Jones went to the said Halls Store and the said Jones
carried with him a large bunch of Keys and with one of the
said Keys did unlock the Padlock belonging to the said Store
door, But could not unlock a Stock Lock which belonged to
the same door that the said Jones Carried a Broad Chizle and
ripped off the facings of the said door but could not get the
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door Open, that afterwards the said John Jones went into an
Entry belonging to the said Halls dwelling House and tooke
out off the same Entry a Pair of mens thread Stockings and a
Small Apron which the said John Jones Carried away with
him, The next night the said John Jones and this Examinant
went to the house of the afd Jeremiah Williams, and the said
Williams Informed the said Jones and this Examinant that he
had been at John Selmans Store with a Pretence to buy some
thread but his design was only to see how things lay, and that
he was Sure he had a key that would open the said Selmans
Store door, but if it should not the house might be entered
by diging a hole under the Sill of the House and Proposed to
this Examinant that he should go with him the said Williams
and John Jones to break open the said Selmans Store Saying
that Selman had drank very much that Day and would Sleep
Sound that Night, That Some time after the said Jeremiah
Williams Said he was too much in Liquor to go himself and
asked this Examinant if he would go with the said John Jones
to break open the said Store which this Examinant Refused
& told him that he had been too often upon such Business
and was resolved not to go any more to which the said John
Williams Replyed if he this Examinant did not go it should
be the worse for him, that this Examinant and the said John
Jones did the same Night go to the said Selmans Store and
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