To her Settlemt. by Service before
Marriage, her Husband having left
her & she not knowing his
Settlement

Bastard Child

Middlesex ss}

Lucy Harrison< no role > the wife of William Harrisson< no role >
maketh oath that her Said husband is now absent from
her in Places unknown & hath left her destitute of support
& Maintenance And she can give no Account respecting
her Said husbants Place of Settlement That she this
Deponent some years ago & While a singlewoman was hired
for the Space of a year & lived as such hired servant at Certain
Wages by & with one William Brooks< no role > a Watchmaker in
Thames Street in the Parish of St James at Garlick hith
in the City of Londn & Continued in such service under such hiring
for the Space of Eleven Months & upwards when She was
paid her Wages then due & went away & the Same day after her
departure this Deponts sd Mistress Came to her to Come to live
with her again & this Depont. thereupon Came back the same
night to her sd Masters house & Continued on in such her service
for about the Space of two months more so that this Depont
remained & Continued in such service for the Space of fourteen
months & upwards That she this Depont hath two Children
namely Daniel< no role > aged about four years & Lewis< no role > Aged about
two years the Issue of this Deponent by her sd husband
to whom she was lawfully Married That she this Depont
hath a Child named Elizabeth Boston< no role > aged Seven years &
upwards which was born in St John Street in the Parish
of St Sepulchre London & there baptized & registred the
which Child is illegitimate & a Bastard & that one Thomas
Boston< no role > deced did get her with Child of the sd Bastard Child

Sworn this 25 day
of July 1783 before}

The Mark of
Lucy [mark] Harrison< no role >