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for fourteen Months or thereabouts at the Yearly Wages of five
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or done any other act whereby to gain a Subsequent Settlement, And
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she was delivered of a Male Bastard Child in
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who lately lived
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aforesaid had Carnal Knowledge
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and no other Person did
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beget the same & that he is the real and true father thereof.
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before
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R Butler M Addington
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The Mark of
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Martha Thornton
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