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Mr. Nelson an Oilman in
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St. Clement Danes
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upwards of One Year at the Yearly Wages
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of Seven pounds since which time she has never done any
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Wm.
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Richards
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of the 66 Regiment of Foot and who is now at
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Edinburgh
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had Carnal Knowledge of her Body in her said
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Masters House on the
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Seventeenth day of
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December last
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at which time he got her with Child
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William Richards
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true father thereof
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July 1774
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William Addington
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Allan
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Mark
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