Middlesex ss}
Mary Mc. Koy< no role >
Single woman
maketh oath That She
knows a Child named
William Cooper< no role >
Aged about three
Years who is become Chargeable or likely to be so to the Parish
of
Saint Botolph without Aldgate
in the County of Middlesex
And this Deponent Saith That one
Ann Tillroy< no role >
deced did
in her life time inform this Deponent (& which information this
Deponent believes to be true) That she the said
Ann Tillroy< no role >
was the Mother of Such Child And that the same was born
of her Body as an illegitimate or Bastard Child in the
house of one Mr Beatley in
Hodgsdon Square
in the Parish
of St. Leonard Shoreditch
in the said County of Middlesex
And this Deponent farther Saith that she hath also been
informed & believes the same to be true That one
William
Cooper< no role >
who is lately gone abroad as an East India Soldier
(as is alleged) is the Father of the said Child And that he &
the said Childs Mother deced were Scotch People.
Sworn this 14th day of
April 1767
before
Chris. Scott< no role >
R Pell
Mary [mark] Mc Koy< no role >
Her Mark