Middlesex ss}
Jane Hopperton< no role >
Singlewoman
maketh oath
that divers years ago She was hired and lived as a hired Servant
by
the year by & with
Richard Johnson< no role >
in the
Butcher Row
in
the parish of St Botolph without Aldgate
in the said County
Victualler
& Continued in Such Service there for the space of
three years & by means there of gained a legal Settlement
there That She has not Since lived elsewhere as a hired
Servant for the sapce of a year nor has She ever been Married
or done any Act to gain anothr Settlement That She hath a
Child named
Richard Johnson< no role >
aged about two months who
was born of her Body in
Milk Street
in the parish of christ
Church
in the County Middx
She which child is a Bastard &
illegitimate by reason this Depont was never Married and that
the sd
Richd Johnson< no role >
late of Lower East Smithfield
aforesaid
& who is lately gone into Woles
as she has been informed & believes
is the Father of the said child.
Sworn this. 7. day of
March 1777
before
Parkr Rowlands< no role >
Jane Hopperton< no role >
Middlesex
Margaret Thompson< no role >
the wife
of
Joseph Thompson< no role >
mariner
who is absent from her on board
one of his Majesties Ships
of war maketh oath that her sd husband has informed her & which
She believes to be true that he was born at Antigna
& to her knowledge
or belief he never did any Act to gain a Settlement in England That she
this Depont before her marriage & while a Singlewoman was hired & lived as
a hired Servant
by the year with one Captn Jerrett in the
parish of
Weymonth
in the County of Dorset
at Certain Wages & continued in Such
Service for the Space of a year & upward & by means thereof gained a
legal Settlement there & has not Since lived as a hired Servant for a year
or done any Act to gain anor. Settlement Save what She has acquired by
marriage & that She hath a Child named
Susannah < no role >
aged about Seven
months the lawful If one of this Deponent by her sd husband to whom
She was lawfully married.
Sworn this. 8. day of
March 1777
before
Parkr Rowlands< no role >
The Mark of
Margaret [mark] Thompson< no role >