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Aged 23 Years on her Oath says she
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Jno Palmer
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at the Yearly Rent of
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£10 & Paid Parish Taxes due for the same hath Quitted the said
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she was delivered of a Male Bastard Child in the House of
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Mr Mc Grigger No 2
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which is Intended
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to be Baptized by the name of John, and is now Chargeable to the
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& likely to Continue so And
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Servant
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who
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lately lived with Captn Thornton & who now lives with a
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in the
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is the Father thereof he having had Carnal knowledge of her Body
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at her Fathers House at
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aforesaid in the begining
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of September last but the Particular day she does not remember
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& at several different times afterwards at one of which times
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he got her with Child of the Male Bastard Child of which she
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was so delivered as aforesaid & that the said
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Christopher
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& no or Person did beget the same & that he
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is the real & true Father thereof
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24th day of
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May 1784
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