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Sarah Smithson< no role > aged about 22 Years
now a Servant to Mr. Nowlton in Butcher Row
in the parish of St. Clement Danes in the County
of Middlesex upon Oath says she served Eight
Years Apprenticeship with the said Mr. Nowlton
in Butcher Row aforesaid and hath been out of
her said Apprenticeship about One Year And
further upon her Voluntary Oath says
she never was Married and that she is pregnant
with Child or Children which is likely to be born
a bastard or bastards and to become chargeable
to the said parish of St. Clement Danes she
being poor and Unable to Maintain the same
when Born says one Mr. Thomas Gribble< no role > Gentn.
who lodges at a Gown and Sack Warehouse in
New Round Court in the Strand had carnal
knowledge of her body sometime in the Month
of August last and at several other times since
at one of which times he got her with Child of the
Child or Children with which she is now pregnant
and that the said Thomas Gribble< no role > and no other
person did beget the same.

Sworn the 16th. day
of March 1765 before} Tho Lane< no role >

The Mark [mark] of Sarah Smithson< no role >