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Robert Preston
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mariner
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deced maketh oath That She has been informed by her
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Said late husband (& which information this Deponent believes
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to be true) That her said husband was born in the
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in the County of
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Kent
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and that he also
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Served an
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apprenticeship in the Sea Service
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but with whom
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he never informed her. That about Seventy four Years ago
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She was lawfully married to her said late husband in
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t
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he
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Parish Church
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of St. Botolph without Aldgate
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London
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That to her Knowledge information or belief her said husband
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never rented a house of the Yearly Rent or value of Ten Pounds
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nor ever Served any Parish offices nor Paid any Scavengers
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Poors Rates or Kings Taxes nor to her knowledge information
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or belief ever did any Act to gain a Settlement in his own
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right (Save What he might Acquire by his Birth and
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Apprenticeship as aforesaid. That this Depont. Cannot
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Set forth or discover the Settlement of her Said late husbands
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Parents or either of them & That She this Deponent Since her
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Said husbands death hath not rented a house of the Yearly
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rent or value of Ten Pounds nor Paid any Poors Rates or
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Kings Taxes nor to her knowledge or belief hath She done
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any Act Since her Said husbands Death to gain a Settlement
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in her own right.
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Sworn thisday of
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1769 before}
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