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might be a means of her confessing itDeponent then was called for
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home and soon after she heard the Child was found, and she then went
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and saw the Child laying in a Chair in the, Maids Room, Deponent
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said to the Woman, How could You say and put your Soul to it that
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you was not with Child and I see the Child now here, to which
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she replied I was not then with Child when I swore I was not. the
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woman said I did not Kill the Child it was Still Born. Deponent
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is or opinion the Child was not fairly done by but Deponent was
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very much frightened at the time.
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Sarah Tomlinson
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Mary Sawyer
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Theophilus Sawyer
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of the three Blue
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Posts Pubic House the corner of Edward Street facing
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Saint
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James Westmr. on her Oath saith that yesterday between Eight and nine
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o' Clock in the Morning Mr. Sawyer's Son in Law came
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and knocked
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to
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Deponents Chamber Door and called out the Maid was not well, Deponent
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came down and found the Maid in
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, and said Betty what's the
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matter with You, she replied she had a sad pain in her Stomach, Deponent
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desired her to go up Stairs, and she would go with her, and in the landing
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place of the Stairs the Maid stopped and sat down on the Stairs and said
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she should be better presently, and in a little time she was better and went
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up into her own Room, and Deponent with her, and the Maid sat down
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on the Bed, and Deponent asked her if she was not in Labour, she said
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How could You think so, You know Ma'am I have been of this size a
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great while, she then desired Deponent to let her have something warm
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which Deponent did and brought it to her, she drank it and said it
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did her good Some time after Deponent went up again, and then saw
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the Child in a white Apron on the side of the Bedstead, Deponent
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asked her why she did not own she was with Child she said she was
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ashamedDeponent and the Midwife and another Woman that was
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then in the Room discoursed together and were of opinion that
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nothing had been done to the Child but what might have been in
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consequence of the Woman's delivering herself, the Maid said the
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Child never cryedDeponent says she saw in the Maid's
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Draw
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some few Child Bed Linen such as a Shirt and two or three Caps, but
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