Midwife's testimony, Bristol Co. Massachusetts, 1727. Small Manuscript Collection, Harvard Law School Library. (Colonial North America: Harvard Law School Library)

Midwife's testimony, Bristol Co. Massachusetts, 1727. Small Manuscript Collection, Harvard Law School Library.

Manuscript testimony, dated April 11, 1727, regarding the declaration of the paternity of a child born out of wedlock to Charity Caswell, probably in January 1727. Signed by midwife Mary Crossman; also by Sarah Dean and Elizabeth Caswell.

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Aprill the 11th 1727 - This is to sertifie any Whome it May - Consern that Charity Caswell in the time of her Trauill when Examined by the midwife Did Declare that oliver Richman was the father - of the Child then Born of her Body and accuse no man Else as witnes our hands -

midwife Mary Grosman Sarah Dean Elizabeth Caswell

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the Decloraton of sevral wemen

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