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being 20 Years Age the 17th day
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that his Mothers
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the saint three and that
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Minor was beget by a
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Paupers Another
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the Mother of the said Sarah
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new living and in the Seventy first
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the said Wm Summs being Acquainted and working for the Family of
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enter the above named Wm Parder the
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the said Simms and under pretence of Marrying her
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and she became pregrant
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near the time of her delivery he took her to London (which was in
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the Month of July 1763 with Instant to Mary her as he preteiaca but never performed such promise alledging
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when the could get Money to buy necessary things the would Mary her and not before for he could not bear the
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thoughts of living when Married in a ready Furnished Lodging that he took Apartments for her in a Street called
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Keate Street near Spita
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Marker where she continued about about five Weeks and she was there delivered of a Male
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Child the
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entered in the Register of Bap
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five days Old That the Parker informed two (
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that he had not only called his Boy after his own Name but he had at such time altered the name of her
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Daughter by having her Registered as his Wife-That she
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was present at such Birth and continued
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there Nursing her
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for three Weeks and at the Expiration of such time she took her with her Home to
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her own Dwelling at Edmonton that Darker who continued to Work in London used to come down to
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Edmonton about once a Week to see
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Daughter and the Minor but only triffled with her in the
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manner above mentn. respecting her Intermarriage with her until her Daughter being worn out with Grief in reflecting
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on her dreadful situation she died of a Consamption on the third day of July following the Birth of the
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Minor a
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