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<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n857-1">Susannah Watson</rs>
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Aged about 27 Years on her Oath says she never<lb></lb>
was Married Rented House or paid Taxes says she lived a hired<lb></lb>
Yearly <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ476">Servant</rs>
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to one Mr. Porter a Cook in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1398"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1399"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1400">Devereux Court</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the Parish of Saint Clement Danes</rs>
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in the County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
upwards of three Years at the Yearly Wages of £4..10s..0d hath<lb></lb>
quitted her said service about Ten Years ago since which time she<lb></lb>
hath gained no other Subsequent Settlement And further upon her<lb></lb>
Oath says that in the Month of March 1772 she was brought to bed<lb></lb>
of a Female Bastard Child in the House of one Farrall a Cork<lb></lb>
Cutter in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1401">Clements Lane</rs>
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which hath since been Baptized by the<lb></lb>
Name of <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n857-2">Sarah Ann</rs>
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And that in the Month of Decr. 1775 she was<lb></lb>
delivered of another Female Bastard Child in the House of one Mr.<lb></lb>
Holton in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1402">Wych Street</rs>
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which hath since been Baptized by the<lb></lb>
Name of <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n857-14">Mary</rs>
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both of which are likely to become Chargeable to the<lb></lb>
said Parish she being Poor and unable to Maintain the same and<lb></lb>
that one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n857-3">John Hicks</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35808_occ477">Copper Plate Printer </rs>
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who now works at<lb></lb>
one Mr. Hambletons in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1403"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35808_geo1404">St- John's Passage </rs>
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near Hicks's Hall</rs>
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is the<lb></lb>
Father of Both the said Bastard Children he having had Carnal<lb></lb>
Knowledge of her Body for Ten Years last past and that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n857-5">John Hicks</rs>
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and no other Person did beget the same and that he is<lb></lb>
the real and true Father thereof</p>
<p n="858">Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35808_date316">22nd- day of<lb></lb>
Febry 1779</rs>
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before}</p>
<p n="859">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35808_n859-1">Susannah<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Watson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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