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The Voluntary Examination of
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in the said County
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of Middlesex
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Singlewoman
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taken on oath before me
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John
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Sherwood
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Esquire
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one of his
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Majesties Justices of the
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Peace
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in and for the said County this -
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Eleventh day
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of March 1775
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.
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Who Saith That She is now With Child And that the Said Child
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is likely to be born a Bastard and to be Chargeable to the said
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Parish of Saint Botolph without Aldgate
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and that
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Thomas
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Boddy
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now or late of
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half Moon Alley
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in the
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Parish of Saint
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London
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Butcher
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is the Father
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of the Said Child and this Examinant Further Saith that Sometime
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ago She was hired & lived as a
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hired Servant
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by the year with
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Joseph Smith
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in
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Upper East Smithfield
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in the said parish of St
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Botolph without Aldgate
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Butcher
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at Certain Yearly Wages &
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Continued in Such Service for the Space of one Year & Four Months
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& by means thereof gained a legal Settlement there That She this
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Examinant has not Since lived as a
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hired Servant
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for a year or
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was ever Married nor hath done any Act to gain a Subsequent Settlement
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Taken & Signed the day &
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Year above written before
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me
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Jno Sherwood
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The Mark of
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Mercy
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Holloway
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