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She usually slept with Mrs.
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Eleven Weeks old, and Slept with her
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the Twenty seventh Instant Says that about
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cryed very much and Mrs. Moore came
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up Stairs, That the Child cryed again
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at three o' Clock and Dept.
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the Mother and the Mother gave the
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Sworn the Day Year & Place
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