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her Daughter says that about three Years agoe
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Street at which time the said Metyard had two apprentices whom
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She Starved and used in a very Cruel manner as the Daughter
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Informed him, and that She also used the Daughter herself very ill
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says that upon his quitting the said Lodgings he took the Daughter
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out of Compassion as a Servant in which Capacity She has
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continued ever since, says that during this Time the Mother has
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very often come to his House both in Town and County and
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Treated this Informant and her Daughter with very apprentices
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Language endeavouring to get her Daughter out of his Service
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says that in the Daughters answer to the Mother he has
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freequently
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heard her Threaten her with the word Gullyhole
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Ghost Etc from which he suspected that some bad Crime
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had been Committed, and one day insisting on the Young woman's
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telling him the Truth, She confessed that her said Mother
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had Cruelly used and Starved two of her apprentice to Death vizt.
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and that she Cut the Body of the former
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in Pieces and carried it to the Gulley hole in
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one hand which She Burnt for fear of a discovery it having
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8th. day of July 1762}
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