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Sworn this
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Henry
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Crabtree
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Spinster Severally make oath & first the Said
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Thomas Devail
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That She is the
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Elizabeth
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his
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both deced with Whom
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this Depont was also Well Acquainted That the sd
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Henry Dighton
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in his life
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time rented a dwells house of upwards of the yearly rent or value of Ten
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pounds adjoing to the
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the Trade of a
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died in the
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without Bishopsgate
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as this Deponent has been informed & believes
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and that She did not afterwards to this Deponts Knowledge information or
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belief do any act to gain a Settlement elsewhere And the said Deponent
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Susannah Dighton
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for herself Saith that she never was bound an Apprentice
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nor ever lived as a hired Servant for a year nor was ever married nor ever
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did any Act to gain a Settlement in her own right
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Both Sworn the
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20. day
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of August 1777
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Susannah
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