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<p n="233"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middlesex ss}</note>
<rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10310_n233-1">Elizabeth Preston</rs>
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<interp inst="GLBAEP10310_n233-1" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10310_occ87">widow</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10310_n233-2">Robert Preston</rs>
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<interp inst="GLBAEP10310_n233-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10310_occ88">mariner</rs>
<interp inst="GLBAEP10310_occ88" type="occupation" value="mariner"></interp>
<lb></lb>
deced maketh oath That She has been informed by her<lb></lb>
Said late husband (& which information this Deponent believes<lb></lb>
to be true) That her said husband was born in the<lb></lb>
in the County of <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10310_geo181">Kent</rs>
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and that he also<lb></lb>
Served an <rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10310_occ89">apprenticeship in the Sea Service </rs>
<interp inst="GLBAEP10310_occ89" type="occupation" value="apprenticeship in the Sea Service "></interp>
but with whom<lb></lb>
he never informed her. That about Seventy four Years ago<lb></lb>
She was lawfully married to her said late husband in <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10310_geo182"> <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10310_geo183">t<rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10310_geo184">he<lb></lb>
Parish Church</rs>
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of St. Botolph without Aldgate</rs>
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London</rs>
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<lb></lb>
That to her Knowledge information or belief her said husband<lb></lb>
never rented a house of the Yearly Rent or value of Ten Pounds<lb></lb>
nor ever Served any Parish offices nor Paid any Scavengers<lb></lb>
Poors Rates or Kings Taxes nor to her knowledge information<lb></lb>
or belief ever did any Act to gain a Settlement in his own<lb></lb>
right (Save What he might Acquire by his Birth and<lb></lb>
Apprenticeship as aforesaid. That this Depont. Cannot<lb></lb>
Set forth or discover the Settlement of her Said late husbands<lb></lb>
Parents or either of them & That She this Deponent Since her<lb></lb>
Said husbands death hath not rented a house of the Yearly<lb></lb>
rent or value of Ten Pounds nor Paid any Poors Rates or<lb></lb>
Kings Taxes nor to her knowledge or belief hath She done<lb></lb>
any Act Since her Said husbands Death to gain a Settlement<lb></lb>
in her own right.</p>
<p n="234">Sworn thisday of<lb></lb>
1769 before}</p>
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