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Middx
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Aged about Twenty Six years on
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her Oath Says she never was Married Rented House or paid Taxes
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says she lived a hired yearly
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with one
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John Baker
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a
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Stone Mason
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in
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Water Street
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in the Parish of St Clement Danes
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in the County of Middlesex
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for Three years and a half at the
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yearly Wages of Five Pounds hath Quitted her said Service
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upwards of Ten years ago and hath not Since Quitting the same
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ever Rented House paid Taxes lived a hired yearly Servant
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for one year any otherwise gained a subsequent Settlement
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And further on her Oath says that on the
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17th day July
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1773
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she was delivered of a female Bastard Child named
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Mary
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, in the house of one Mr Martin a Blacksmith in
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Wild Court
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in the Parish of St Giles in the
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fields
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in the said County of Middlesex
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, and further upon
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William Waits
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, late a
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footman
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to
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John
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Barwell
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Esqr
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in
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Golden Square
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and who is now (as she
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believes) gone to
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India
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, but with what Captain and on
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board what Ship she cannot set forth, but that he the said
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William Waits
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and no other person did beget the same
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and that he is the real and true father thereof
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Sworn this
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13th day
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of Novr 1775
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before}
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her
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Eleanor
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Johnson
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Mark
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