Middlesex & Westmr.
to wit
Margaret King< no role >
Aged about Twenty years
on her Oath Says she never was married Rented House
paid Taxes or Served any Apprenticeship Says she lived
a hired yearly Servant
with one Mr. Vardin a Piece
Broker in
White Horse Yard
in the Parish of Saint
Clement Danes
in the Liberty of Westmr
. upwards of
Two years at the yearly Wages of four Pounds and
hath not yet quitted her Place 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
John Johnson< no role >
a Journeyman
Taylor
who lately ledged after said Masters house had
Carnal Knowledge of her Body some time the Middle
of June 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
John Johnson< no role >
and no other person did beget the same
and that he is the real and true Father thereof
Sworn this 1st. day
of March 1776
before
Wm Kitchiner< no role >
her
Margt. [mark] King< no role >
Mark