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with a Spade which the said Jones Carried with him dug a
hole under the Sill of the said Store house where they entered
and took thereout a Large Jug of Chery Rum ten or a dozen
Felt hats a Piece of Chints and almost all the other Goods
that were in the said Store which this Examinant and the said
John Jones carried to a Branch near the said Jeremiah Wil-
liams house, and then went and acquainted the said Jeremiah
Williams therewith that the said Williams went with this
Examinant and the said John Jones to the Place where the
Goods were left and took the Piece of Chints and Some Brown
Rolls away with him and left the other Goods hid in the
Branch That the Sunday night after this Examinant went to
the said Jeremiah Williams's house to know what he had
done with the Goods that the said Jeremiah Williams then
Informed him this Examinant that he had Covered them
with Sheeps Skins to keep them from the Wet Weather and
the Same Night this Examinant and the said Williams hurried
the Jug of Rum in the said Williams's Garden And the said
Williams Informed this Examinant that as soon as he could

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get an Oppertunity of Airing the said Goods he would Pack
them up in a Cask that some time after he the said Jeremiah
Williams proposed to this Examinant to go with him to Rob
Thomas Elliott Brother in Law to the said Jeremiah Williams,
telling this Examinant that the said Thomas Elliott had a
large quantity of Hogs Lard in his Milk house that accord-
ingly this Examinant and Jeremiah Williams went to the said
Elliotts Milk house which they broke open and took there out
a firkin about half full of hogs Lard a Gordfull of Lard and
Piece of Bacon which the said Jeremiah Williams delivered to
a Negro man called Will belonging to M^r Chapman (whom
they had left at some distance from the house to hold their
horses) and ordered the said Negro to carry it to his the said

Williams' s house, that the said Negro Will asked the said

Williams who the fatt belonged to to which the said Williams
Replyed, what need you to Care You Dog, it is mine, that the
same Night the said Jeremiah Williams went into the Pasture
of Philip Richardson, and took thereout a Sheep and killed it,
which Sheep the said Williams said was his own and that he
had drove his Own Sheep into the said Richardsons Pasture
the day before. That the said John Jones Informed this
Examinant that when he the said Jones lived in Prince Georges
County he the said Jones and his Brother in Law John Lee
had a Parcell of Keys that they used to keep hid under a
Bush and that with One of the said Keys the said John Jones
did Open the Store door of M^r Joseph Belt and took out of
the said Store two or three Pieces of Eight and some Milled
Shillings and that by the help of the said Keys he the said

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