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<p n="797"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Westmr.</note>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35820_n797-1">Mary Blake</rs>
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aged about 35 Years Upon Oath says<lb></lb>
she is the <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35820_occ293">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35820_n797-2">Peter Blake</rs>
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with whom she intermarried in<lb></lb>
the Parish Church <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35820_geo839">of St. Giles in the Fields</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35820_geo840">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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about three Years ago by whom she hath one Child<lb></lb>
named <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35820_n797-6">James </rs>
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aged about Six Months, says her said husband<lb></lb>
is a Native of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35820_geo841">Ireland</rs>
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and never gained a Settlement in<lb></lb>
England to her knowledge or belief that her said husband<lb></lb>
is gone from her and is now in the Kingdom of Ireland as she<lb></lb>
this Examinant has been informed and which information<lb></lb>
she believes to be true; says before her intermarriage with<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35820_n797-3">Peter Blake</rs>
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and whilst she was a Single Woman<lb></lb>
she lived a hired Yearly <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35820_occ294">Servant</rs>
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with Mr. Dickey a<lb></lb>
Taylor in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35820_geo842">Villiers Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35820_geo843">York Buildings</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35820_geo844">Parish of<lb></lb>
St. Martin in the Fields</rs>
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in the Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35820_geo845">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for One Year and Upwards at the Yearly Wages of Six<lb></lb>
Pounds and after she quitted said Mr. Dickey's Service<lb></lb>
never Rented Ten Pounds a Year paid Taxes or lived a<lb></lb>
Yearly hired servant for one Year And further upon<lb></lb>
her Voluntary Oath says that sometime in the Month<lb></lb>
of August 1758, she (being then a Single Woman and had<lb></lb>
never been Married) was delivered of a Male Bastard<lb></lb>
Child in the house of Mr. Bennett a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35820_occ295">Perukemaker</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35820_geo846">Charles Court in the Strand</rs>
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in the Parish of St. Martin<lb></lb>
aforesaid in the Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35820_geo847">Westminster</rs>
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which hath since<lb></lb>
been Baptised <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35820_n797-7">Edward </rs>
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and is now living says that one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35820_n797-4">James Logan</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35820_occ296">Taylor</rs>
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was the reputed Father of the<lb></lb>
said Child, and that the said <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35820_n797-5">James Logan</rs>
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died on the<lb></lb>
26th. of April 1760.</p>
<p n="798">Sworn the <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35820_date183">30th. day of<lb></lb>
August 1765</rs>
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, before} <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35820_n798-1">Fran Cary</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35820_n798-2">Thos: Balack</rs>
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<p n="799"> <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35820_n799-1">Mary Blake</rs>
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