Middlesex ss.
Phoebe Guy< no role >
Singlewoman
maketh
Oath that divers Years ago she was
hired and lived as a hired Servant
by the Year with
James Stapleton< no role >
of
Cloth Fair
in the Parish of Saint
Bartholomew the Great
in the City
of London
at the Yearly Wages of
Five Pounds and continued in such
Service about Eighteen Months that
she has not since lived as a hired
Servant by the Year in any other
Parish or Place for the space of One
Year together nor was she ever
Married or done any Act to gain
a Subsequent Settlement That she
hath a Child named
Elizabeth Onion< no role >
aged Two Years & Eight Months born
of her Body in
Virginia Court
in the
Parish of St. Botolph without Aldgate
in the said County which said Child is
Illegitimate and a Bastard by reason
this Deponent was never Married And
that one
Edward Onion< no role >
late of Virginia
Court
aforesaid But now in places to
her unknown is the Father of the
said Child
Sworn this 29th Day of
November 1788
before
R Davies John Staples< no role >
her
Phoebe [mark] Guy< no role >
Mark