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RefNoKHCP/1/19/14
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TitleDeposition: Joseph Linton, Abbotsley, farmer, charged William Townsend with stealing a sheep worth 30/-. Townsend, recently removed by an order from Little Stukeley to Abbotsley was employed by Linton (Surveyor of the Roads) stone-gathering, Linton's flock consisted of 70 ewes, 10 gist, 20 thraves 58 wethers and 45 lambkins. Joseph Richardson, Potton Beds, jobbing labourer, identified Townsend as the man from whom he had bought a sheep-skin which he later sold to a fellmonger, Mr.Brabrook. Depositions by William Linton, Abbotsley, farmer, Wm. Cade Abbotsley, Joseph Jeffs (Joseph Linton's shepherd), Thomas Coleman (employee of the Overseer of the Poor) Frederick Brabrook, Potton, Beds, fellmonger - all identifying the sheep-skin.
Date1835
CreatorNameHuntingdonshire Quarter Sessions records
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives
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