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about Seven Years ago and by whom she hath
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no Child or Children living Says her said Husband Served
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Seven Years
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which hath since been baptized by the
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his time with one Mr. Blyth a Weaver in
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is the Father they
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he having had Carnal Knowledge of her Body for near Two
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Years last Past at one of which times he got her with Child of
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the Female Bastard Child of which she was so delivered as
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beget the same and that he is the real & true Father thereof
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March 1782
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