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Document Name: Complaint of Lydia Briggs

Author: Lydia Briggs
Date: February 28, 1776
Place: Easton, Massachusetts
Endorsement(s): None

Abstract: 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.

Physical Description: Ink on paper; 1 page (11 x 21 cm.) on 1 sheet. Docketing on verso.

Number: MSN/COL 2717-85

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