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aged about 21 Years upon
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Seven Years
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and never Rented house
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paid Taxes or lived a hired Yearly Servant for
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One Year and further Upon her Voluntary Oath
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says she is pregnant with Child or Children which
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is likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards and
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she being poor and Unable to
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Robt.
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did beget the said Bastard
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now pregnant he having had carnal knowledge
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of her body in the Month of September 1764 and
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at several other times since at One of which
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Robt. Taylor
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Paul Vaillant
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Joannah Mirfield
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