St Botolph Aldgate Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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27th January 1776 - 10th August 1776

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Image 104 of 1157th June 1776


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Jane Read< no role > the widow of Domingo Read< no role > deced
maketh oath That her Said late husband has informed her & which
She believes to be true That he was hired & lived as a hired Servant
by the year at Certain Wages with Mr Williford a Coal merchant
in Lower Eastsmithfield in the Parish of Saint Botolph without
Aldgate in the Said County & Continued in Such Service for many
years & by means thereof gained a legal Settlement there & did not
afterwards to this Deponts knowledge information or belief do
any Act to gain another Settlement nor hath She this Deponent
Since his death done any Act to gain a settlement for herself

Sworn thisday of
1776 before}

Middlesex ss}

Sarah Davis< no role > Single woman maketh oath that
divers years ago She was hired & lived as a hired Servant by the year
by & with one John Lashbrook< no role > in Horsely Down Lane in the
Parish of Saint John Southwark in the County of Surry Victualler
& Continued in Such Service for the Space of Three years at the
yearly Wages of Five Pounds & by means thereof gained a legal
Settlement there That She this Deponent has not Since lived as a
hired servant for a year nor was She ever married nor hath she
done any Act to gain another Settlement


Sworn this 7th day
of June 1776 before
Parkr Rowlands< no role >
Jasper Clarke< no role >

The Mark of
[mark]
Sarah Davis< no role >




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