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Informations taken this Twenty sixth day
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Male Child lying Dead in the said Parish
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Liberty and County.
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John
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about half a Yard from the
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Shore, Says that he stepped into the Water, and took hold
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on his Oath saith
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That he this day opened the Body of a Male Child
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did not Sink in the
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Water, and that he believers the said Male Child
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was born alive Says that the Navel String of said
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Child was Not tied nor any care taken for its
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Preservation, but that he observed no Marks of violene
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