Middx
to wit
Sophia Powell< no role >
aged upwards of Eighteen Years
on her Oath Says she never was married Rented House or paid
Taxes says he has served upwards of Six Years of her
Apprenticeship
to Mr. Hedges a Jeweller in Vere Street
in the
Parish of Saint Clement Danes
in the Liberty of Westminster
& County aforesaid and hath gained no other Settlements
than As aforesaid And further on 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) And further says that one Major
David
Johnson< no role >
who lately lodged at her said Masters House and
who now Uses Perceys's Coffee House
in Rath bone Place
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 one other time
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 Major
David Johnson< no role >
and no other person did
beget the same and that he is the real and true Father thereof
Sworn this 9th. day
of Augt. 1783
before
W Addington
Sophia Powell< no role >