Middx ss}
Elizabeth Higgerson< no role >
Singlewoman
maketh oath That She can give
no Account respecting the Settlement of her Parents or either of there
Save that she has been informed by them & which She believes to be
true that her Father was a Chesoture
Man & her Mother a Horthamptonshire
Woman but the respective places where they were born they never informed
her That She has been informed by her said Parents & which
she believes to be true That She was born near the
Hermitage
Bridge
in the parish of St Botolph without Aldgate
in the said
County That she was never an Apprentice nor ever lived as a
hired Servant for the space of a year nor was ever married nor
ever did any act to gain a Settlement in her own right.
Sworn this 19 day of
May 1777
before
Jasper Clarkes< no role >
E Higgerson< no role >
Middlesex ss
Margaret Jolly< no role >
the widow
of
Richard Jolly< no role >
deced maketh
oath That She can give no account respecting her sd late husband Jolly's
Settlement That many years ago & long before her marriage with the sd
Richd
Jolly< no role >
She was married at the Fleet
to one
Willm Austin < no role >
who as she has
been informed by him & believes was duly bound to & Served the whole of
his Apprenticeship with
Thomas Cartwright< no role >
in
Kingsland Road
in the
Parish of St Leonard Shoreditch
in the said county Stocking Frame Knitter
& by means thereof gained a legal Settlement there & that he did not
afterwards to this deponts knowledge or belief rent a house of Ten pounds
a year or upwards or serve any parish office or pay any Poors Rates or
Kings Taxes or do any Act to gain a Subsequent Settlement That She this
Deponent Since there Spewe deaths of her sd late husbands hath not lived
as a hired Servant for a year or rented a house of Ten pounds a year or
paid any poors Rates or kings Taxes or done any Act to gain a Settlemt
for herself save what She has acquired by her Second marriage
Sworn this 19 day of
May 1777
before
Jasper Clarkes< no role >
Parkr Rowlands< no role >
The Mark of
Margaret [mark] Jolly< no role >