Middlesex ss.

Mary Merryweather< no role > the Wife of John
Merryweather< no role > (who has left her)maketh Oath
that she was lawfully Married to her Said
Husband at the Parish Church of Trinity
Minories the Second Day of May 1777 that her
said Husbands Father & Mother Now live in
and Rent a House of upwards of Ten Pounds
a Year opposite the Stave Yard in Mill Street
in the Parish of St. Mary Magdalen Bermondsey
in the County of Surry that they have lived
in the said Parish upwards of Forty Years
and paid all Taxes, and further saith that
her said Husband has informed her that he
was duly bound Apprentice to Captr. Grigg
of George's Row in the said Parish that he
Served his said Master under the Said Indenture
about Three Years & went several Voyages with
him to America But having two of his
Fingers Shot off by the Mate of his Masters
Ship in her Passage home his said Master
gave him up his Indentures, and that when
her said Husband was not on Board the Ship
he Boarded & Lodged in his Said Masters
House in George's Row aforesaid, that her
said Husband has never Rented any House