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Lydia Briggs, "Complaint of Lydia Briggs"
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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.