Middlesex ss}

Mary Ashley< no role > the widow of Jacob Ashley< no role > a
Soldier deced maketh oath That She Can give no Account
respecting the place of Settlement of her said late husband's
Parents or eithr of them That her said husband has informed
her & which information she believes to be true that he was born
in the Town ofYarmouth in the County of
Norfolk That to this Deponents knowledge information or
belief her said husband was never bound Apprentice nor ever lived
as a hired Servant for a year nor ever Served any Parish office
or Paid any Poors Rates or Kings Taxes nor ever did any Act
to gain a Settlement in his own right and that She this Depont
Since his death hath not done any Act to gain a Settlement for herself

Sworn this day
of January 1774 before}

The Mark of
Mary [mark] Ashley< no role >