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within the same Citty in the Generall Quarter Sessions
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assembled.
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The humble Peticon of the Churchwardens and
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Overseers of the poor of the Parish of
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Sheweth.
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That One
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Elizabeth Hopkins
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being about 76 Yeares of
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age and haveing been an Inhabitant in yor. Petrs Parish
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for severall yeares last past is reduced to great Necessity
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and poverty and now become burthensome to yor Petrs. said
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Parish and notwithstanding one
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Thomas Paine
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who
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married the said Hopkins Daughter is of goods substance
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and Ability and ought by Law to provided for his said
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mother and not burthen yor Petrs said parish with
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the Charge thereof get the refuses soe to doe altho he
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hath been thereof required.
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Wherefore yor Petr. humbly pray
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yor. Lordship and Worpps to heare them in the
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Prmisses and also order the said
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to appeare before you and shew cause why he
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should not provided for his said Mother as the
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Law in that Case directs and also to hear ad
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abide the determinacon of yor Lordship and
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Worpps therein.
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And Yr Petrs, shall ever pray Etc.
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