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as part of the ship’s steward’s effects.
With regard to the stockings.
I was present at Mr. J. Hyde’s chambers when the Prisr was examined: Some parcels of stocking were produced, and Wheeler the Prisr confessed that he had sold to Mitchel Two Doz of Silk Stocking & one Doz or two (I am not sure which) of worsted. I understand the confession to relate to the stockings then produced, but I do not know that he said
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