St Botolph Aldgate Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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31st January 1797 - 3rd January 1799

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Image 34 of 15727th June 1797


Middlesex,

to wit, Sarah Sawyer< no role > , Widow of Samuel Sawyer< no role >
maketh Oath and Saith, That she was lawfully
Married to her said late Husband at the Parish
Church of Chatham in the County of Kent about
Twenty Three Years since That her said Husband
was formerly Bound Apprentice by Indenture to
his Father John Sawyer< no role > , a Shoemaker , who lived
near Saint George's Church in the Parish of
Saint George the Martyr , in the Borough of
Southwark and County of Surrey , and served
him under such Indenture several Years,
but that her said Husband left his said Father
before the Term of his Apprenticeship was expired
and went on Board a Man of War , and Continued
in his Majesty's Service for several Years That
her said Husband did no Act to her knowledge
or belief to gain a subsequent Settlement, nor
hath she this Deponent done any Act to gain a
Settlement since his decease That being Poor
and unable to provide for herself she hath
applied to the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish
of Saint Botolph Aldgate in the County of
Middlesex for relief, and hath been relieved by
them accordingly.


Sworn this 27th. Day of
June 1797 , before us
R Davies Wm Quarrill< no role >

her
Sarah [mark] Sawyer< no role >
Mark




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