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& put the things in the three Bags and Came away and
Carried the Goods they had taken to a Thickett by Jerom
Williams House & Put them in the Bushes & Negro Sickey
went away with the Saddle which he had taken from the said
Brashears house this Examinant and said Jones went to Jerom
Williams's & Lay under a Cherry Tree whilst they were under
the Tree the said Jones asked this Examinant if he knew how
the Money lay in the Stadt house whether it was kept Signed
or not this Examinant replyed he did not know Jones said if
he did not Jerom Williams did and that he should soon hear
that Some Body had got a great deal of Money and that if
this Examinant would go with him he could get enough at

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Marlborough for he was well acquainted with the Stores
there and likewise at Bladensburgh and that he knew one M^r
Peters who had a Store distant from any other house and
which was Easy to come at and after this Examinant had
awoke in the Morning the said Jones was gone and Jerom
Williams af^d Came out of his house to this Examinant and
asked where Jones was who Replied he did not know and
wished he had never known the said Jerom asked why so this
Examinant answered you know very well what We were
doing last night the said Jerom Replyed come along and
accordingly they went two or three hundred Yards and then
the said Jerom asked this Examinant what he had got this
Examinant answered you know what We have got before now
and then they went to the Bushes where Jones was and then
Jones Shewed the said Jerom the Goods which they had taken
from said Brashears then said Jerom Williams is this what
you have got and then said Jones took up Part of the Goods
and Jerom Williams the Spice Mortar & Pestle and hid them
in the Bushes the said Jerom asked said Jones why he did not
bring other things the said Jones Replyed because they were
gone and then Williams told this Examinant he would keep
the Goods they had brought by him and would Send for Goods
of the like kind in order to Sell those they had Stolen and
afterwards this Examinant asked Jerom Williams where they
got the Cherry Rum which they drank the other night in the
woods Jerom Williams told him that the said John Jones had
Said it came out of Selmans Store whereupon this Examinant
asked said Jones who it was that took it out of Selmans Store
his Answer was it was time enough to know that when he this
Examinant had taken an Oath of Secrecy this Examinant
answered he never would do that This Examinant further
says that whilst he and Jones were under the Cherry Tree af^d
Jones told him he had been at Colly Beans Store and with a
false Key had opened the door and went in Colly lying at the
same time upon the Counter on Some Rugs that the said

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