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maketh Oath That on the Tenth Day of January Instant
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the Prosecutrix in this Cause Did
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in the presence of this Deponent Seal and as her Act and Dead
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Deliver the paper Deed or Writing hereunto annexed purporting
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the Name J. Palmer subscribed as a Witness to the Execution
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By the Court
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