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to wit <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35822_n975-1">Esther Newton</rs>
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Aged about 19 Years on her<lb></lb>
Oath Says she never was Married Rented House or<lb></lb>
paid Taxes Says she lived a Hired Yearly Servant with<lb></lb>
one Mr. <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35822_n975-2">Ezexiel Atkins</rs>
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a Broker in Stanhope Street.<lb></lb>
in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35822_geo960">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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in the Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr. for one Year and half at the Yearly Wages of £4.<lb></lb>
hath quitted her said Service about Six months ago and<lb></lb>
hath not sence she quitted the same ever Rented House<lb></lb>
or Paid Taxes And further upon her Voluntary Oath<lb></lb>
Says she is pregnant wth. Child or Children which is or are likely<lb></lb>
to be born a Bastard or Bastards and to become chargable to<lb></lb>
the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35822_geo961">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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she being Poor and<lb></lb>
Unable to Maintain the same when born Says that her sd.<lb></lb>
Master <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35822_n975-3">Ezekiel Atkins</rs>
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had Carnal knowledge of her body<lb></lb>
sometime in the latter End of June or the beginning of July<lb></lb>
but the particular day she does not now remember and<lb></lb>
at Sevl. Other times Afterwards at one of which times he got<lb></lb>
her wth. Child of the Child or Children of which she is now pregnant and<lb></lb>
as afsd. and the sd. <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35822_n975-4">Ezekiel Atkins</rs>
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and no Other person did<lb></lb>
beget the same & that he his the real and true Father<lb></lb>
thereof</p>
<p n="976">Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35822_date262">20th day of<lb></lb>
January 1772</rs>
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before} <obscured></obscured>
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<p n="977">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35822_n977-1">Esther<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Newton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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