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Mary Kain
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aged about 24 years upon
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her Oath saith That she never was married that
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she lived as a hired yearly Servant with Mr. Leigh in
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in the
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in the
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for Two years that she
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quitted her said Service about Three Months ago and
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since which time has done not any Act Matter
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or Thing to gain a Subsequent Settlement And
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further this Examinant upon her Oath saith that
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on the Ninth day of November last she was delivered
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of a Female Bastard Child in Store Street Lyingin
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Hospital which has never been baptized That one
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Thomas Higgins
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who is Servant to Sir
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Nicholas Lawes
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in
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Pall Mall
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and is at present
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out of Town is the
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Father thereof he having had Carnal knowledge
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of this Examinants Body sometime in or about the
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Months of February or March last and at several
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times since at one of which times he did beget the
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said Bastard Child of which she was so delivered
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as aforesaid and that the said
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Thomas Higgins
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and
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no one else did beget the same and that he is the
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only real and true father thereof
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Sworn this
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9th.
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day of Decr. 1788
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.} R Butler
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her
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Mary
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Kain
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Mark
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