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Sarah Wiggins Killed Child, Dobbs Co., 1772
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33760
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Sarah Wiggins, wife of Gersham Wiggins, in a deposition said a negro slave of her father, Benja Herring, drugged her with alcohol and raped her several times. She gave birth to her second? mulatto child and on the third day killed it on Mar. 26, 1772.
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