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Aged about Twenty five Years in
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her Oath Says she never was Married Rented House paid Taxes or
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lived a hired Yearly Servant for one Year, Says her father
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John
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Served Seven Years
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with one Mr. Love a
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facing Essex Street
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in the Strand
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in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes
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, and afterwards lived as a
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Journeyman
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with
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the said Mr. Love for several Years afterwards, but at what Wages this
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Examinant does not know, and after Quitting his said Service he never
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Rented House paid Taxes or otherwise gained a Subsequent Settlement
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and further upon her Voluntary Oath says that on the 3
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1st day of
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July 1770
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, she was delivered of a female Bastard Child in
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Green
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Willow Court
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in Morris's Rents
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which has since been baptized by the name of
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Elizabeth
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And further upon her Voluntary Oath says she is Pregnant with Child
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or Children which is or are likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards
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and to become Chargeable to the said Parish of
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Saint Clement Danes
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she being poor and unable to maintain the same when born and this
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One
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Thomas Price
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Ostler
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who now lives with Mr.
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Edward Avery
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in
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the Haymarket
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is the father thereof he having had Carnal Knowledge
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of her body sometime in the Month of September last but the Particular
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Day she does not now remember and at several different times afterward
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at one of which times he got her with Child of the Child or Children of which
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she is now Pregnant and that the said
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Thomas Price
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and no other
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Person did beget the Same and that he is the real and true father
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of the first mentioned Bastard Child & of the Child or Children
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of which she is now Pregnant
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Sworn this
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16th day
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of June 1775
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Before
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M Addington
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her
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Elizabeth
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Mark
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Witness
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James Viger
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