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relative to the Settlement of
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By Pass Warrant or Order of Removal under the Hands and Seals of
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Herbert Mayo
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D: D: two of his Mates
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Justices of the Peace acting in & for the Co. of Middx assd. (one whereof being of the Quorum) bearing date the 10 day of June 1784
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Martha Pickett
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was removed and conveyed from & out of the said Psh of St. Geo: to the said Parish of
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as the Place of
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the last legal Settlement of the said
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Against which sd. Pass Warrt. or Order of Removal the said
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have appealed to the ensuing Genl. Quarter Session
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of the Peace at the Session House for the sd. Co. of Middx
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The Appellants Case
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The said Pauper on her late Examn: by the Parish Officers of
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in Consequence of her having been Passed as
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afsd.declared That she is a
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aged between 18 and 19 Years, is the Daur of
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John Pickett
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late of the sd.
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in Middx
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Mariner
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deced
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That (as she hath been informed by her Mother
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Margaret Pickett
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& believes) her said Father was an
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in Bride Street in the sd. lastmentd. Psh for upwards of 30 Years that although his Rent was but £5 per Ann. Yet he
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Paid sevl. Taxes, particularly the Land TaxThat he died in said House about 9 Years ago & the Paupers said
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Mother after his Death continued in his said House & Paid the Land Tax,That about 4 Yrs. ago she quitted said
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House and has for a consble Time past been in the
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belonging to the sd. Psh of
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St. George
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and is
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now maintained thereinThat the said Pauper was born in her said Mothers House in Bird street, was
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never bound Apprentice nor at Service in any one Place for the Space of 12 Mos.That she always lived
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with her said
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Mother
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Father and Mother in the aforementd. House whilst her Father was living and
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afterwards with her Mother whilst she continued therein except when at Service or with a Mrs. Price
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herein after mentd.That about 7 Yrs. ago her said Mother agreed with Mrs.
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Ann Price
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a Lodger in th
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King
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Court in
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in the said
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to learn her (said Pauper Martha) to make gold and silver
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thread Buttons and gave her as a Consideration therefore 5 Guas. and the said Pauper was to live with her
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for four Years and be provided with Lodging and Board, and a Memdum or Agreement wrote on a common
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Street of unstamped Paper was signed by them both, but not by the Pauper, which Memdum or Agreemt. said
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Mrs. Price kept and Paupers Mother had not any copy of itThe Pauper further says that she accordingly
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went and lived with said Mrs. Price in her said Lodging in
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for the Space of 1 Year & 11 Months
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& then said Price ran away from her Lodgings leaving the Pauper who thereupon went back to her said
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Mother in Bird Street and has not gained any Settlement elsewhere
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However whether the Paupers Settlement be in
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Saint George's Parish
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or elsewhere we apprehend it
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does not lay with the
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to prove the same but that it is incumbent on the Parish of
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Saint
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George
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to support their own Order of Removal by proving the Paupers Settlemt. to be in the
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Parish of
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which we conceive cannot be done under or any ways relating to the Agreement between the
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Paupers Mother and said Mrs. Price, or the Paupers living with Mrs. Price in Consequence thereof
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as stated in the Brief.
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We Shall produce the Pauper and have supa
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d her Mother the said
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Margaret
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Pickett
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