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Informations taken this fifth day of
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January 1788 at the Parish of
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the death of a New born Male Child
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Thomas Ever
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George Walker
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Westmr. Poullerey on his Oath
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Saith, That last Night about half hour
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after Eight he was sent with a Castle of
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Towels to Captain Palmer's in
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Street, Says that two Boys went with his
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and near the Great west Door of
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. saw an Old Woman and young
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Girl standing, the Woman being doing something
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to her Patter, Dept saw or Parcel lying of
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the Ground, and the old Woman said I would
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what that is take it up, upon which the
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of the Boys with Dept. took it up being
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Hat Box tied with a Silk Handkerchief of
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Says that he said that they had got a bring
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in
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where they
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looked into a Corner of the Box and by
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discovered it to be a Child, but did not
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examine the Child & cannot say whether
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the Child was dead or alive, Says that he
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carried the Child to Mr. Keir one of the
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Church Wardens and left it there, Says that
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the Hat Box wat about a Yard from the
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Woman when he first saw it and that
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the Woman Staid there until the Child was
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taken away by this Dept. and the other Boys
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Thomas Ever
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his Mark
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