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maketh oath that he is one of the
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Ward, and that on Saturday
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night about half past eleven o Clock as Dept was going
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his sound calling she hour of the night he found the deced
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- Says it was dead & fell cold. That he
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Sworn the 15th. day of July
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1793 before me T: Shelton Corr.}
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The Mark of
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Lewis Leese
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and Man
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maketh oath that last Sunday morning soon
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after seven he was called on so examine the deced infant what
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he did. - lays he did not observe any internal marks of vid
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upon it, that he opened it, body &
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Lamp out
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which he put into Water & they floated Says the Child appeared
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to be a cute
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Child. that upon the whole he believes the Child
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was born alive that coat from any Judgmt. of the manner it
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had been destroyed.
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Sworn the 15th. day of july
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1793 before me
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T. Shelton Corr.}
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