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He insisted that he was right, - but said if I would not give him back the Watch he would leave it and attempted to go. I had before given him to understand that I suspected it to have been stolen, and on his attempting to go, I ordered the doors to be shut & told him he should not go. He sd he was a [man] of [Carneter?] & cod give Security. I desired he wod send for his Securities & I’d let him go. He sd that at that time [ILL] people were gone into the Country.
Soon after T. & Gardner came
in