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in the sd County & during Such his residence therein was
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Charged to & Paid Kings Taxes therefore She this Depont
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having more than once Paid Such Taxes to the then
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Collector thereof Mr Callander Since deced That her
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as the Place of their last legal Settlement at the
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& Admitted into the Work house there Again St which
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order no objection was ever made to this Deponts knowledge
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or belief That her sd husband Since his leaving the
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Sd house in
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elsewhere That she hath two Children namely
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aged about Sixteen Years &
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Years & half the lawful Issue of this Depont. by her sd
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husband to whom She was lawfully married neither
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of which Children have as yet done any Act to gain
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a Settlement for themselves
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Sworn this
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22d-day of
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Novemr 1783
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J. Hawley P Greene
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