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Bastardy before Birth
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Settlemt
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Pregnancy
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Father
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Sarah Richards
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aged
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twenty one years and upwards Upon Oath
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saith that she never was Married, she lived as an hired yearly Servt.
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with Mr Constable in Butcher Row in the
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Coffee Man for
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about
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one year
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two Months
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& upwards at the Annual Wages of Seven
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pounds for the first Nine Months and Eight
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Guineas the residue of the time that she
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quitted his Service on or about the 20th. instant and
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hath not obtained any subsequent legal Settlement
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and this Deponent Upon her Voluntary Oath
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farther saith that she is now pregnant
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with a Child or Children
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which
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and that the said Child or Children is or one
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likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards and
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be and that
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Samuel
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Taylor
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Row
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of such Child or Children where with she is
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pregnant as
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in or about the Month of December last and at
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several times since at some or one of which
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times he did beget the said Child or Children
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there
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or the said Body of this Deponent and saith
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that she was not ever criminally connected
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