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pregnant with Child or Children which is or are likely
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chargeable to the said parish she being poor and
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unable to maintain the same when born Says
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William Bowers
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John
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aforesaid is the Father thereof
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he having had carnal Knowledge of her Body about
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the beginning of October last but the particular Day she
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does not now remember and at sevl- difft- times
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afterwards at one of which times he got her with
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Child of the Child or Children of which she is now
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Wm- Bowers
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and no
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other person did beget the same and that he is the
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real & true Father thereof
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22nd-
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R. Butler
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Enala Kidd
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