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Informations taken this Eighth day of May 1766
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Parish Liberty and County.
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Grave digger to said Parish on his Oath saith, That yesterday
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Morning about half on hour after six o'Clock He this Deponent
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, and about six Yards from the Wall adjoining to
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, Deponent saw a Bundle lying in the said
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Burying Ground, Says that he went it to be a Red Barse
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Bag, and therein a Child wrapped in a piece of Linnen
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Cloth, Says that the Child was then Dead but Dept did not
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Examine the Child at the time, but carried it to the Vestry
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Says that about a Quarter after Seven o'Clock the same
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Morning Mr. Elcock the Sexton came there, when they
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Nassau Street
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, on their Oath saverally say,
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that they this day Examined the Female Child and f
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Marks of Violence thereon, That they tried the Experiment of
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putting the Lungs into Water, and that they did not Sink therein,
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but that they cannot say that the said Child was born alive,
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the Child having been Dead about eight days, as there
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W. Groote.
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