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Aged about Twenty Three Years
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with one Mr. Geo who lately kept
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the Half Moon
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for
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Two Years & an half or thereabouts at the Yearly Wages
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of Forty Shillings for the first Year fifty Two shillings for
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the Second and Three Pounds for the third hath quitted her
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said Service upwards of five Years ago and hath not since
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she quitted the same ever Rented House paid Taxes or lived
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unable to maintain the same when born) Says that one
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Edward Ward
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who now lives with his Mother
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No. 6
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is the Father thereof
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he having had Carnal knowledge of her Body in July last
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the Day after st James Day to the best of her knowledge
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no other person did beget the same and that he is the real
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and true Father thereof.
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Sworn this
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21st. day
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of March 1774
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her
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Sarah
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