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aged about Nineteen Years on her
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for one year And further upon her Voluntary
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she being poor and unable to maintain
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a Scene Painter, belonging to
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had Carnal Knowledge of her Body sometime the
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beginning of January last past and at several Different
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times afterwards at one of which times he got her
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James Meesinck
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and no other person did beget the same and that he
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Sworn this
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