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aged about Sixty Years one of the
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Ann Matthews
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applying to her and asking her how she could be so base and
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where it was dropped That the Father of the said Child was the
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at sea and that on his return which she believed wod. be about
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Christmas she wod. take the Child away whither it was in the
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Sworn this
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October 1779
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