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Deponent found her in a bad State of health and much out of
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order and Indisposed and Subject to Fainting fits on Account of her being
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for advanced in her pregnancy as She this Deponent upon a Strict
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Enquiry and a narrow Inspection found her to be about Seven
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Months gone with Child and in a very weak and faint Condition which
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She this Deponent as She is informed and believes attributes also in a
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great measure to Some Trouble of mind or some Law Suit she is at present
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unhappily Involved in The Effects of her present illness apparently
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appearing by Various Circumstances to her this Deponent and which
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She believes for the reasons aforesaid may be Attended with bad
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Consequences and this Deponent further Saith that she this Deponent
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hath followed and practised Successively the business of Midwifery
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for upwards of Forty years with Success And possitively on her
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Oath Saith that according to the best of her Judgment Still knowledge
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Information and belief She the said
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Elizabeth French
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cannot at
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present Safely proceed to take her Tryals on the above Indictments
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without manifest danger and hazard of her life
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Dorothy Carton
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Sworn in Court at
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this 5th day of December 1758
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Waller
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Mr. Whits
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