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2nd January 1719 - 3rd December 1719

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Image 69 of 14528th October 1719


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Ann Armstrong< no role > confessd, that going to the
Vault, the child dropt from her, that She immed
iatly took it out, wth. out any signe of Life therin
thereupon she wrapt it in a Linnen Cloth, & Locked
it up in her box, without disclosing what hapned to
any person, That the next day she Left her service but
carry'd away the box, [..] with the dead child:
That the next day being the 28th: instant some of her
masters family came to her Lodgings, charging her
wth. her delivery over night she readily acknowledgd
it to be true, gave them the Key of the Box where
they found the dead Infant

That the family knew she was wth Child, & that
She had made provision for the unborne infant
And that shee's the wife of Wm. Armstrong< no role > now at
Sea

Capt vicesso. Octavo die
Octobris 1719

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