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To the Right Worpfull her Maties
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The humble petition of Widdow Smith
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inhabitant
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that your Worships will be pleased to take
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into your consideration ye under written matter viz
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That unfortunately takeing a child to nurse, the
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sara Early
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, of the said Parish
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he being gon from his habitation & the Mother
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being dead the child lyes wholly upon the charge
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of their abovesaid Widdow, therefore she humbly
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intreats your Worships to consider her circumstance
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haveing a child of her own & nobody to take
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care of it but herself she therefore, with sub-
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mission to your Worships better Judgement
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presumes the Parish better able to maintain this
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