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TAYLOR, George (1716-1781), Signer (Pennsylvania). Document signed ("Geo.Taylor") as Justice of the Peace, countersigned by other witnesses, Northhampton County [Pennsylvania], 18 March 1779. 1 page, folio, neatly inlaid.
A deposition in regard to the death of a newborn child, recording the testimony of Mary Richards, who reports that she was summoned "in a very surprising and pressing manner" to the bedside of Mrs Thomas Miller, where she saw a woman named Ann Bassett sitting by the fire side with "a new Born babe in her Lap, wrapt up...that the woman who had the child said...Here is a little infant and nothing to put on it...Mrs. Simpson went and brought some clothes...the midwife came and Mrs. Miller was put into bed properly...the Child cried and appeared very lively, was a Boy, lived till Sunday, and then died."
A deposition in regard to the death of a newborn child, recording the testimony of Mary Richards, who reports that she was summoned "in a very surprising and pressing manner" to the bedside of Mrs Thomas Miller, where she saw a woman named Ann Bassett sitting by the fire side with "a new Born babe in her Lap, wrapt up...that the woman who had the child said...Here is a little infant and nothing to put on it...Mrs. Simpson went and brought some clothes...the midwife came and Mrs. Miller was put into bed properly...the Child cried and appeared very lively, was a Boy, lived till Sunday, and then died."