Document: Confessions of Abigail Balden and Enam Benoni to adultery

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in Adultry wth [Enom

oath that ye said Enom was [ child, and yt thar was A[

tewen them, yt then would waitt [

untill shee could be freed from her husband [husband? by law or yt hee was taken from her by [de

and then Enom and shee weare to live together as man and wief, and in wettnes of this [ shee bracke a pece [? ] of silver betwene them

Enom being Examened declareth yt the pece of silver was cutt upon ye request of Abegall

to see whether it waere silver ore baase and standeth in ye deniall of all ye rest yt is charged against him.[i]

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