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an I quisition taken on
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. on his Oath saith that
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lost Saturday night about nine be was sent
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Dept. came there he informed Dept. that a Child
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mob about the Infant, says some body among
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the Mob
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lifting
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lifted the corner of is coarse
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Cloth and of an
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aer finer Cloth which were
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about the child, and dept. then saw that there
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was a child therein, and dirt upon one of its Arms
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brough the child to the Work house opened it
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to the Matron.
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Ann Dixon
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Saturday night betwixt nine and ten informed
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about the Middle, Whereupon Dept. went there,
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and found a great broad of people, and Mr. Goodman
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and Mr. Foster in the Nudot, says somebody, he
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believes Mr. Goodman unfolded the cloths in which
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the Child was wraps up, and Dept. then discovered a
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New born child in it, says he believes it was dead, but
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made no strict Examination of the Child
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