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4th Wts
Thomas Hutton.
I am a seaman belonging to the Ravensworth.
The Prisr came aboard one evening abt 8 or 9 o’clock. I was in the Toncastle, & he went below. Soon after, as I was going down the Scuttle to the middle Deck he called out who’s that. I said it is Hutton. He said will you take hold of this, I stooped down to do as he desired, when I fod it was a which weighty parcel, and then I asked what am