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Lydia Briggs, "Complaint of Lydia Briggs"

Date

1776 February 28
Part of: Bristol County, Massachusetts Court Records
Rare Books & Special Collections, Hesburgh Libraries

A complaint signed by Lydia (Lidia) Briggs, a single woman of Norton, in which Briggs alleges that John Mory, also of Norton, "Begat me with Childe of a Bstard Child which I am now pregnant with." The complaint is directed to (and written in the hand of) Benjamin Pettingill, Bristol County justice of the peace, and seeks a warrant against Mory.

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Date
1776 February 28

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Rare Books & Special Collections, Hesburgh Libraries

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