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in the said County Have at this present Session Exhibited their Petition and
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Appeal setting forth That by Virtue of an Order or Pass Warrant under the Hands and
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Eleventh day of February 1773
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aged about nine Years
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about three Years and
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as
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the place of their last legal Settlement Whereby the Petitioners conceived themselves
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aggrieved Now upon hearing of the said Appeal and what hath been alledged by the
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respective Churchwardens and Overseers their Council and Witnesses in and concerning
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the Premisses It is Ordered that the said Appeal be and the same is hereby allowed and
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the said Pass Warrant or Order of the said Two Justices is hereby vacated and set a side
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Ann his Wife and their said four Children (together with a Copy of this Order) unto the
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Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Saint Luke aforesaid or to some or one
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of them who are hereby required to receive and provide for the said
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Ann his wife and the
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said four Children until they can free themselves from the Charge thereof by due Course of Law.
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By the Court
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Butler
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