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She had occasion to go to the little House and then this Dept. perceives
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She had put the Bed Linnen at the Wash house Door which
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this Depont. examined and then told the said
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she would know the truth and she imediately Walked up
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Stairs to bed and then declared she beleived She had
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Mis carryed and Dept ask't her why She did not Let this
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Depont seeth, and whether it was a live or Dead Miscarriage
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and she then said it was a Dead Miscarriage And this Dept
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Saith that She has seen the said Child since it was taken out
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of the House of Office and says it was full grown Child and
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beleives it was born alive and beleives the said Child was
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born two and twenty hours before it was thrown down the
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I. King
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in the
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being duly
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Sworn upon her Oath Saith that She has been a Midwife for about
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thirty Years did at the request of Mrs.
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attend on one
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Martha Stokes
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of a Female Infant) on the twenty eight-day of September
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belonging to the said
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Parish and then and there Delivered the said
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Martha Stokes
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of the
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after Birth and Saith that she afterwards
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and said the
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Body of the said Female Infant and saw No Marks of Violence
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on the Body and beleives the said Child came into the
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World in a fit and for want of help died And does not
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beleive the said Child was Murdered
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I. King
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