Middlesex ss.

Elizabeth Hume< no role > the Wife of George
Hume< no role > who was also the Widow of John
Pursseveill< no role > her former Husband, maketh
Oath that she was lawfully Married to
her said late Husband John Pursseveill< no role >
on or about the Twentieth Day of July
1751 at the Fleet , and that there is Issue
living by the said Marriage, One Son
Namely Benjamin Pursseveill< no role > who was
born in Aldersgate Street Hospital , and
about Four Years of Age when her said
Husband died, that her said Husband
has informed her that before his
Marriage with her, he was hired and
lived as a hired Servant by the Year
with Colonel Duckett of Grosvenor Street
in the Parish of St. George Hanover Square
at certain Yearly Wages and continued in
such Service upwards of One Year and
by means whereof as she is advised
gained a legal Settlement there, that her
said Son has never been an Apprentice
or lived as a hired Servant by the
Year with any Person in any Parish or
Place for the space of One Year together or
done any Act to her Knowledge or Belief
to gain a Settlement for himself

Sworn this Day of
April-1789 before}