Middlesex,
to wit,
Bethia Baldock< no role >
Singlewoman
maketh
Oath and saith That about ten or eleven years
ago she was hired by and went to live as a
Yearly hired servant
wish
John Betts< no role >
of the
Parish of
Benniworth
in the County of Lincoln
Farmer
at the yearly wages of three Pounds
and lived in such service under such Hiring
for the space of three years or thereabouts
And that she has not since she quitted the said
Service done any act to her knowledge or
belief to gain a subsequent Settlement.
That she is now Pregnant with one or more
Child or Children and which Child or Children
is or are likely to be born a Bastard or
Bastards and to be chargeable to the
Parish of Saint Botolph Aldgate in the
County of Middlesex And that
James
Marshall< no role >
late of Chapel Street
near
Grub Street
in the City of London
Sawyer
is the Father of the said Child or Children
Sworn this 24 day of
February 1797
before us
H: Reynell R Davies
her
Bethia [mark] Baldock< no role >
Mark