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Westmr.
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to wit
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Ann Robins
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Aged about Thirty Two Years on
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her Oath says she never was married Rented House was
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an Apprentice or lived a hired Yearly Servant for one Year
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but in what
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that on the
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Twenty Ninth day of Decr. 1771
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she was
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delivered of a Female
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in the House of Mr.
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Hudson a Broker in
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little Shire Lane
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in the Parish of
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St. Clement Danes
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which hath since been baptized by the
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Name of
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Martha Masey
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& says that one
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Richard Masey
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a
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and who now uses the
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Hatt & Feather
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in Milford Lane
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did beget the same and that he is the real and true Father
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thereof And further upon her Voluntary Oath says she is
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Pregnant with Child or Children which is or are likely
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to be born a Bastard or Bastards and to become charged
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to the said Parish of
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< she being Poor and
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unable to maintain the same when born and further says
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the said
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Richard Masey
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did beget the same they having
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cohabited together as Man &
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for upwards of Eight
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Years and that the said
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Richard Masey
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is the real and
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true father the thereof.
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Sworn this
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17th. day
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of June 1773
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before
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W Kelyngs
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Ann
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Robins
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