St Botolph Aldgate Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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15th May 1790 - 19th December 1792

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Image 28 of 13424th August 1790


Middlesex,

to wit, John Watt< no role > maketh Oath and Saith
that he was born in Scotland , is about Forty
Years of Age, that he came to London when he
was about Seven Years of Age, and lived in the
Family of Captain David Watt< no role > of Wellclose
Square for about Seven Years, that he does not
recollect in what part of the Square the said Capt.
Watt lived, that he did not live with the said
Capt. Watt as a yearly hired Servant, that at
the Age of Fourteen Years on thereabouts he was
Bound Apprentice by Indenture to the said
Capt. Watt to serve as a Mariner for the space
of Three Years, that he served out his said
Apprenticeship, that during his said Apprenticeship
he usually slept on Board the said Captain
Watt's, Ship, which at different times during
his said Apprenticeship was moored in the
River Thames, that he does not know where
the said Ship was Moored Forty Days in one
Parish during his said Apprenticeship, that
he has not to his knowledge or belief done
any Act since his said Apprenticeship to
gain a Settlement in any Parish Precinct
or Place whatsoever, that he has a Wife living
named Mary< no role > , to whom he was lawfully




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