Westmr.

to wit Mary Street< no role > aged about Twenty four Years on
her Oath Says she never was married Rented House or
paid Taxes Says she lived a hired Yearly Servant with
one Widow Smith who keeps a House in Bear Yard in
the Parish of Saint Clement Danes in the Liberty of
Westmr . for thirteen Months at the Yearly Wages of five
pounds Ten Shillings hath quitted her said Service about
three Weeks ago and hath not since she quitted the same
done any Act whereby to gain a Subsequent Settlement And
further upon her Voluntary Oath says she is Pregnant with
Child or Children which is or are likely to be born a Bastard
or Bastards and to become Chargable to the said Parish she
being Poor and unable to maintain the same when born Says
that one Abraham Francis< no role > a Journeyman Butcher who
she believes now lives at Rumford in Essex is the Father
thereof he having had Carnal knowledge of her Body
sometime in the Month of March last but the particular
day she does not now remember and at several different
times afterwards at one of which times he got her with Child
of the Child or Children of which she is now pregnant And
that the said Abraham Francis< no role > and no other person did
beget the same and that he is the real and true Father thereof

Sworn this 7th. day
of Novr. 1772 before} [..]

Mary Street< no role >