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Document Name: Joannah Read recognizance

Author: Thomas Gilbert
Date: January 12, 1774
Place: Bristol County, Massachusetts
Endorsement(s): None

Abstract: A partly printed memorandum written and signed by Thomas Gilbert, Bristol County justice of the peace, recording a bond of recognizance entered by Joannah (Joanna) Read, of Berkeley, in the amount of £5, and Nathaniel Ralph, of Freetown, as surety in the amount of £5, on condition that Read appear before the Bristol County Court of General Sessions of the Peace to answer "for her haveing a Bastard Child begotten of her body."

Physical Description: Letterpress on paper, with manuscript entries in ink; 1 page (16 x 19 cm.) on 1 sheet. Docketing on verso.

Number: MSN/COL 2717-81

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