1788-07-02 (static/transcriptions/1788/07/083.jpg)

One day before the Robbery but I think it was more than 3 Days before the robbery.
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9th Wts for the King
Saml Taylor.

In the Hospital Yard about the 20th day of last Jany (but I did not particularly observe the day of the month) the cutlass now produced was found by James Pease and me we were walking near the great tank, & saw the cutlass stuck in the ground as deep as it could be stuck: a small part of the handle appeared out of the ground. Pease took it & carried it to his cot: the next morning it was