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to wit
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Aged about Twenty five Years on
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her Oath Says she never was married Rented House or paid
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Taxes Says she lived a hired Yearly Servant with one Mr.
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Wermell at the Sign of the Sun near
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Three Years at the Yearly Wages of Three Pounds hath quitted
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her said Service upwards of Six Years ago and hath not since
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she quitted the same ever Rented House paid Taxes or lived an
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the 23d. day of December 1768 she was delivered of a Female
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Bastard Child in the House of
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Andrew Thomas
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Liberty of Westmr. which hath since been Baptized by the
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Michael Charles
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a Dealer
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Little Drury Lane
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is the Father of the said Female
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Bastard Child he having had Carnal knowledge of her Body
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sometime in
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the Month of March 1768 but the particular Day she does not
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now remember and at sevl. Different times after at one or
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which times he got her with Child of the Female Bastard Child
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of which she was so delivered and that the said
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and no other person as the real and true father thereof
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Sworn this
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2d. day of
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October 1772
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Eliz:
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