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one of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50775_occ344">Overseers of<lb></lb>
the poor</rs>
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the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50775_geo615">County of Middlesex</rs>
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maketh Oath<lb></lb>
and saith that <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50775_n1418-2">martha Ripperd</rs>
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who<lb></lb>
some time since in an Examination in writing taken upon oath charged <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50775_n1418-3">Thomas Pierson</rs>
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with being the father of the child or<lb></lb>
Children of which she was them pregnant,<lb></lb>
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Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50775_geo616">Hampstead</rs>
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present time Pregnant with such Child or<lb></lb>
Children and hath not been delivered there of<lb></lb>
And this Deponent further saith that the said<lb></lb>
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in consequence of such pregnancy and taken before<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50775_n1418-5">Edward Montagn</rs>
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one of His Majesty's<lb></lb>
I Justices of the Peace for the said County and<lb></lb>
thereupon entered into Recognizance with a<lb></lb>
surety to appear at this present session and<lb></lb>
answer the complaint fo the overseers of the poor of the said Parish<lb></lb>
and abide such Order as should be made in pursance<lb></lb>
of the statute in such case made and provided</p>
<p n="1419">Sworn in Open Court at the General Session<lb></lb>
of the Peace holden for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50775_geo617">County of Middlesex</rs>
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at the session house of the said County on<lb></lb>
Monday the 15th day of December 1783}</p>
<p n="1420">Hall</p>
<p n="1421">Eagle Casswell</p>
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