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Rebecca Green
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Aged about 34 Years on her Oath says
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she never was married rented house or paid Taxes
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Alexr.
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Attornoy at Law
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Cecil Street
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in the Strand
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in the parish of St. Clement Danes
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for two Years and a half at the yearly Wages of £6s hath
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quitted her said Service upwards of nine Years ago since
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which time she hath never gained any other subsequent
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Settlement either by renting house paying Taxes or living
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a hired Yearly Servant for one Year and furr. on her
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Voluntary Oath says she is pregnant with Child or
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Children which is or are likely to be born a Bastard or
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Bastards and to become chargeable to the said parish
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she being poor and unable to maintain the same when
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born says that one
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Phoenix Lane
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a
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plate Printer
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who lately worked with one Mr. Paybody
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(and who she believes
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does now) had Carnal Knowld.
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of her Body upwards of Eighteen Months last past at one
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of which times he got her with Child of the Child or Children of which
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she is now pregnant and that the said
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and no other person did beget the same and that he
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is the real and true Father thereof
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Sworn this
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22d
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Day of Octr. 1776
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R Butler
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her
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Rebecca
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