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The Information of
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Wife of
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Taken before me this 9th. April 1760
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Who being upon Oath says that She understands something of
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Mid
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wifers
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and that Yesterday about 9 in the Morning She
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this Informt. was sent for to the Honor of Mr. Dudmen of
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aforesaid in Order to Examine
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Ann Hurlock
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She being inspected to have been privately delivered of a Child says
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that She went there accordingly, that She there saw & examind.
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the aforesaid
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Hurlock, that She found that the said
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Hurlock had been very lately delivered of a Child, says that She
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then examined the Vault in the said House where She bound a
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Female Child with it's head almost sc
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from the Body yt. She
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also bound a knife in the Kitchin on which there was some Blood
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& with which the said Hurlock acknowledged to this Informt.
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that She destroyed the said Child, & this Informt. says that
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She heared the said
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Ann Hurlock
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acknowledge as well
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the House of the said Mrs. Dudman as when She was before
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the
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Justice of peace
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, that the said Child was born alive and
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that it Cryed very much, says that when She took the sd. Child
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of the Vault it bled afresh from the Wound & this Informant
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further says that from the size & appearance of ye. sd. Child She
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believes to the best of her Knowledge that the sd.
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went her but time before She was delivered & that the sd. Child
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was born alive &
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Death to ye. Round it received as above
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Susannah
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Derwood
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Mark
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Sworn before me this
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9th. April 1760
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