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one of the overseers of the
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Poor of the said Parish maketh Oath and saith that who
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the Twenty fifth
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of the said Child
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was taken issued their warrant against the said
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Randall and he being Apprehended thereon
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at the last session of the peace held for the said County
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the said Recognizance was upon the Motion of
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was not then delivering
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this said Child and of course no order of Bastardy
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made And this Deponent further saith that the
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in not yet delivered of the said
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Child but this Deponent hath received Information
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herself to be within about a Monthfrom the
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Sworn in Court this
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of December 1799
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