Middlesex ss}
Mary Burgess< no role >
Singlewoman
maketh oath that
about Six years ago She was hired & lived as a hired Servant
by the
year at certain Wages by & with
morris Edwards< no role >
at the
Black Horse
Alehouse
upper East smithfield
in the parish of St Botolph witht
Aldgate
in the said county & continued in Such Service for the Space
of two years & upwards & by means thereof gained a legal Settlement
there That She has not since lived as a hired Servant for the Space of a
year elsewhere nor was She ever married nor hath She done any act
to gain a Settlement Since Such her Service as above Stated.
Sworn this 10 day of
June 1777
before
Jasper Clarkes< no role >
The Mark of
Mary [mark] Burgess< no role >
Middlesex ss}
Sarah Plimar< no role >
wife
of
James Plimar< no role >
maketh oath
that her said husband (who hath lately deserted & left her) drivers years
ago as She has been informed by him & believes was hired & lived as a hired
Servant
by the year at certain wages by & with one Mr
who kept the
Lyon man of War Alehouse
upper East smithfield
in the
parish of St Botolph witht Aldgate
in the said county & continued in Such
Service there for about the Space of Seven years he being during Such
time unmarried man & by means thereof gained a legal Settlement
there That to this Deponents knowledge or belief her said husband
never rented a house of Ten pounds a year or upwards nor every Served
any Parish office or ever paid any Poors Rates or Kings Taxes nor ever
did any act to gain a Settlement Since Such his Servitude as aforesd
elsewhere That She was married to her said husband in
Christ Church
Spittle fields
in the sd County at which time She & her said husband
were Severally above the age of Twenty one years that She hath
a child named
James Plimar < no role >
aged near four months the lawful
Issue of this Deponent by her said husband
Sworn this 12 day
of June 1777
before
Jasper Clarkes< no role >
The Mark of
Sarah [mark] Plimar< no role >