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Middlesex to wit


The Information of Sarah Mc Daniel< no role >
Servant to the Rt. Honble Jno Joshua Lordof
Cary's fort and Sarah Tupman< no role > a Midwife
taken before me One of His Majestys Justices
of the Peace for the said County

Who being upon Oath saith that she is a Servant to the
Lord [..] Cary's fort in Charles Street St Mary le Bone the [..]
One Elizabeth Harris< no role > This name instance is in set 721. This set is in the group(s): MothersOBP . is a fellow Servant with this [..]
Informant and has for sometime past suspected her the [..]
said Elizabeth Harris< no role > to be with Child from her appearing very his that this day being
the 14th. day of May about Noon observed something appeared
to the Informant as if the said Elizabeth was near her
being delivered she accordingly went into the Room of the
said Harris and saw her sitting on the Bed seeming to be very
week and low which gave this Informant reason to suspect
that she had been delivered of which this Informant acquainted
her Lady who Ordered a Midwife to be sent for who according
came and upon Examining the said Elizabeth Harris< no role > found
she had been delivered and when very close questioned acknowledged
the Child was in the Room in a Box under the Bed which
was [..] found and this Informant saw it in the Bos [..]
Bloody at [..] the throat but whether Male or Female she
cannot tell being much frightened

And this Informant Sarah Tupman for herself saith that
she is a Midwife and fives at No 12 Glass house Street in the
parish of Saint James Westminster that this Day
Noon she was sent for by Lady Cargo fort in Charles [..]
Saint Mary le Bone and she went immediatelywhen she
came was informed by Lady Cargo fort she thought there was
something of a Miscarriage happened to One of her Maid
Servants that this Informant was accordingly she was into
a Bed Room where she said Elizabeth Harris< no role > laid upon
the Bed and observed where he went into the said Room with
Sarah Mr. Daniel the other Informantonesomething he




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