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and the Child was by her Playing, the Child went about
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to the Neighbours Houses as it usually did, she cooked out and saw
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looked again and did not see it, she then went to the Neighbours
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but could not hear any thing of it, but after some time
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assisted her in searching the Ditch which Jury along the Sd. Walker
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and the Child was forund Drowned at some little Distance from
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the Deced's House, and the Deponent belevies it
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