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Aged upwards of Twenty
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five Years on her Oath Says she never was married
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Rented House or paid Taxes Says she has lived with
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her present Master Mr.
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upwards of One Year
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and a Quarter at the Yearly Wages of Seven pounds
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to the said Parish she being Poor and unable to maintain
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Jeremiah Taylor
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to Mr. Allanson Silk Mercer in
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St. Clements
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is the Father thereof he having had
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Carnal knowledge of her Body sometime in January
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one of which times he got her with Child of the Child
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beget the same and that he is the real & true Father
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21st. day
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before
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me
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Abrm Baley
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