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Peter Blake
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about three Years ago by whom she hath one Child
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aged about Six Months, says her said husband
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and never gained a Settlement in
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is gone from her and is now in the Kingdom of Ireland as she
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this Examinant has been informed and which information
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she believes to be true; says before her intermarriage with
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Taylor in
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for One Year and Upwards at the Yearly Wages of Six
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Pounds and after she quitted said Mr. Dickey's Service
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never Rented Ten Pounds a Year paid Taxes or lived a
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Yearly hired servant for one Year And further upon
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her Voluntary Oath says that sometime in the Month
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of August 1758, she (being then a Single Woman and had
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never been Married) was delivered of a Male Bastard
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Child in the house of Mr. Bennett a
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which hath since
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and is now living says that one
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James Logan
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said Child, and that the said
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James Logan
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died on the
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26th. of April 1760.
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August 1765
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Fran Cary
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