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an honest Man, and they were drunk. I desired them to let me go and told them I was not a thief, but they would not let me go they said I must go before Mr. Motte. When I was brot before Mr. Motte, he order’d me to lay down my arms. I told him I was an honest Man and not a thief, and was in the Service of an honest Man, Mr. Motte did not mind this, but ordere’d my hands to be tied. Mr. Motte without any reason has treated me like a thief,
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