Vulgar words in Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century (Page 1)

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That such precautions were taken as early as 1629, so that possible murder would not go undetected, is shown in testimony before the General Court at Jamestown after the newly-born bastard child of a servant girl was found dead.

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