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Aged about Twenty three Years Upon
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John Evans
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in
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, And further upon her Voluntary Oath says
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that on the Twentieth of November 1767, she was delivered
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of a Male Bastard Child in the House of Mr. Holmes
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Robert Edwards
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some time in the Month of February 1767, and at several
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and no other Person did beget the same
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