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1777. Sessions. [Monday] Dec. 15th.
Monday Dec. 15th 1777.
Present
Hyde.

Kubbooteree.
Assault on Chaundoo.
About five months ago I went to demand 10 As. Cowries of the Prisoner. The Prisoner immediately flew in a Passion and said she owed me nothing, I then laid hold on her cloth and wanted to bring her before Justice: she push’d me and threw me down, gave me several blows: and press’d my belly, I was then big with child, she knell’d upon my belly, with one knee, and rested on the ground with the other: as soon as I got up She threw me down again and again kneel’d on my belly in the same manner with One knee. My Mother hearing this came and got me clear of the Prisoner, after I went home I was in great pain in my belly, and continued so for two days, on the third day I miscarried. I was near nine months gone, Ten or Twelve days only were wanting. Before she kneel’d on me, I felt the Child alive
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