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with one Mr. Speediman in
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upwards of two
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(she being poor and unable to maintain the same
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sometime in the Month of October but the particular Day
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she does not now remember and at sevl. different times
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afterwards at one of which times he got her with Child of
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the Child or Children of which she is now pregnant and that
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Sworn the
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27th. Day
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