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be sent to Mr. Motte and that he wod get his friends to repair the Rudder. I ask’d how he thought I wod intercede for him, as I had sent him to Mr. Motte, about a year before for stealing Iron. I told to Capt. Crawford what the Man said. He said it was better to let the Man repair the Rudder, for once he had sent some Europeans to Mr. Motte for stealing some thing, and they had escaped out of Prison
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