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Thomas Coe
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in the Parish of St
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John Wapping
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Victualler
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for the Term
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of Seven Years
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That She Serves Six Years & Seven Months of her apprenticeship
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Thomas Coe
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Thomas
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Coe
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her then Master by Mutual Consent Agrees to part And there
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She this Depont. with the Said
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Thomas Coe
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the Same & the Said
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Thomas Coe
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with this Deponts. Consent & in her
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Presence threw the other Part of them into the Fire and Burnt the
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Same And thereby (as it was then meant and understood by the
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Depont. and her Master thesd.
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Thomas Coe
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) intirely Cancelled or
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Annitulates the Said Indentures and Put an end to this Depont
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Said apprenticeship (this Depont. being then as She now recollects
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of the Age of Twenty Years or there abouts) That is
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Consequence of Such Transaction She this Depont. and also the
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Thomas Coe
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(as She believes) deemed this Depont from thenceforth
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to be her own Mistress and at Liberty to go where She Pleased and
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to Provide for herself in Such Manner as She Shod think Prop
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That in Pursuance thereof She of her own Accord and with
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the Consent Aid or interposition of the Said
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Thomas Coe
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then
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hired herself to live as a hired Servant by the Year
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at Certain Year
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Wages with one
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John Bennett
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of
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the Liberty of the Old Artiller
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Ground
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in the Said County
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Victualler
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in Which Service She Cont
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for Five Months & no longer That She this Depont. entered into Su
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Contract & Service for her own Account & to receive Such Wages as
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had Agreed for to her own use & without any Account to be rendered
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to the Said
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for the Same That although this Depont
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Since She left the Said
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hath been hired &
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lived as a hired
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Yet She never Continues for a year
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in any one Service nor was She ever Married nor to her knowledge or
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belief hath She done any Act to gain a Settlement Since her leaving the
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Coe
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Sworn this
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6th day of July
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1769
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before
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Chris: Scott
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Cha: Digby
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The Mark of
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Eleanor
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Curry
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