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<p n="391"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middlesex ss}</note>
<rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10317_n391-1">George Foster</rs>
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maketh oath that divers years<lb></lb>
ago he was hired & lived as a <rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10317_occ266">hired Servant</rs>
<interp inst="GLBAEP10317_occ266" type="occupation" value="hired Servant"></interp>
by the year at certain<lb></lb>
Wages by & with <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10317_n391-2">Edmund Cowell</rs>
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in the<rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10317_geo405"> <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10317_geo406"> parish of Waltham<lb></lb>
abbey</rs>
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in the county of Essex</rs>
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Farmer & Continued in such service<lb></lb>
for the space of two years & by means thereof gained a legal Settlemt<lb></lb>
there That he has not Since lived as a hired Servant for a year or<lb></lb>
rented a house of Ten pounds a year or upwards or served any parish<lb></lb>
office or paid any Poors Rates or Kings Taxes or done any Act to <lb></lb>
gain another Settlement That he hath a <rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10317_occ267">Wife</rs>
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named <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10317_n391-3">Sarah </rs>
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<interp inst="GLBAEP10317_n391-3" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
and<lb></lb>
a child named <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10317_n391-4">Sarah </rs>
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<interp inst="GLBAEP10317_n391-4" type="surname" value="FOSTER"></interp>
<interp inst="GLBAEP10317_n391-4" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
aged about Six years the lawful Issue<lb></lb>
of this Depont by his said <rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10317_occ268">wife</rs>
<interp inst="GLBAEP10317_occ268" type="occupation" value="wife"></interp>
to whom he was lawfully married</p>
<p n="392"> <hi rend="brace"> <lb></lb>
Sworn this <rs type="date" id="GLBAEP10317_date132">29 day of <lb></lb>
March 1777</rs>
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before<hi rend="braceResult"> <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10317_n392-1">Jasper Clarkes</rs>
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<interp inst="GLBAEP10317_n392-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10317_n392-2">Parkr Rowlands</rs>
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</hi>
</hi>
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<p n="393">The Mark of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10317_n393-1">George<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foster</rs>
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</p>
<p n="394"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middlesex ss}</note>
<rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10317_n394-1">Mary Goffe</rs>
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<interp inst="GLBAEP10317_n394-1" type="surname" value="GOFFE"></interp>
<interp inst="GLBAEP10317_n394-1" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
the <rs type="occupation" id="GLBAEP10317_occ269">widow</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10317_n394-2">Nicholas Goffe</rs>
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<interp inst="GLBAEP10317_n394-2" type="surname" value="GOFFE"></interp>
<interp inst="GLBAEP10317_n394-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
deced<lb></lb>
maketh oath That her said late husband was by birth an<lb></lb>
Irishman & to her knowledge or belief never did any Act to gain<lb></lb>
a Settlement in England That this Depont can give no account<lb></lb>
respecting the Settlement of her late parents or either of them<lb></lb>
having never received any information relative there to save that<lb></lb>
She has been informed that they were born in <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10317_geo407">Stafordshir </rs>
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but<lb></lb>
the place where She cannot setforth That She this Deponent<lb></lb>
has been informed that She was also born in the same County but<lb></lb>
the place where She cannot discover or set forth That she was<lb></lb>
never an Apprentice nor ever lived as a hired servant for a <lb></lb>
year nor even did any Act to gain a Settlement for herself save<lb></lb>
what she has Acquired by her marriage as aforesaid That <lb></lb>
She hath four children namely <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10317_n394-4">margaret </rs>
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<interp inst="GLBAEP10317_n394-4" type="surname" value="GOFFE"></interp>
<interp inst="GLBAEP10317_n394-4" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
aged about twenty years<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10317_n394-5">Judith </rs>
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<interp inst="GLBAEP10317_n394-5" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
aged about Thirteen years <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10317_n394-6">Eleanor </rs>
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<interp inst="GLBAEP10317_n394-6" type="surname" value="GOFFE"></interp>
<interp inst="GLBAEP10317_n394-6" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
aged about Ten<lb></lb>
years & <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10317_n394-7">Ann </rs>
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Aged about five years the Issue of this Deponent<lb></lb>
by her said husband <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10317_n394-3">Nicholas Goffe</rs>
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Act of whom were born <lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="GLBAEP10317_geo408">parish of Saint Botolph without Aldgate</rs>
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in the county<lb></lb>
of middlesex & have done no Act to gain a Settlement for themselves</p>
<p n="395"> <hi rend="brace"> <lb></lb>
{Sworn this <rs type="date" id="GLBAEP10317_date133">29 day of<lb></lb>
March 1777</rs>
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before<hi rend="braceResult"> <rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10317_n395-1">Jasper Clarkes</rs>
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</hi>
</hi>
</p>
<p n="396">The Mark of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="GLBAEP10317_n396-1">Mary<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Goffe</rs>
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