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Wages of four pounds Ten Shillings hath quitted his
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she was delivered of a Female Bastard Child on the
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to maintain the same And that one Mr.
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Robert
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William
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Robt.
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William Warburton
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is the Father thereof he having had
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Carnal Knowledge of her Body at Mrs.
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at Mr.
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Spackman
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is the he having had Carnal knowledge of her
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in April last
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Past but the Particular day she does not now
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remember at which time he got her with Child of the Female Bastard Child of which
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she was so delivered as aforesaid and that the said
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Robert
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William Warburton Junr
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beget the same and that he is the real and true
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Father thereof.
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Sworn this
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6th. day of
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January 1775
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R Butler
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The Mark of
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Catherine Wetherspuron
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