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Fourth day of
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March 1771
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City Liberty and County.
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Surgeon
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Birth,
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heard the Man say, that immagined a Child, Says that he
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then saw something wrapp'd up in a Linnen Cloth,
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which appeared to be Bloody, Says that a Young Man
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in Dept, presence opened the Cloth and Dept. then saw
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the Head of a new born Child but Dept. did not examine
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the Child, Says that the Child was removed the same
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Evening, and carried to the Parish Workhouse as Dept.
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