Middlesex ss}

Ann Batton< no role > Singlewoman maketh oath That
She can give no Account respecting her Parents Settlement or
either of them Save that She has been informed by her Sister that
they were Natives of Ireland That She this Deponent can give
no Account as to the parish or place where She Was born having
never reced any information relative thereto That She was never
bound Apprentice nor ever lived as a hired Servant for a year
nor ever rented a house or ever paid any Poors Rates or Kings.
Taxes nor ever did any Act to gain a Settlemt for herself nor was
ever married

The Mark of
Ann [mark] Batton< no role >

Middlesex ss}

The Voluntary Examination of Ann Batton< no role >
of the Parish of Saint Botolph without Aldgate in the Said
County Singlewoman taken on oath before me one of his Majesties
Justices of the Peace in & for the Said County this 13. day of
Septemr 1776 Who Saith that She is now with Child &
that the Said Child is likely to be born a Bastard and to be
Chargeable to the Said parish of St Botolph without Aldgate
And that one Joseph Dixon< no role > of the Same parish Farrier is
the Father of the Said Child.

The Mark of
Ann [mark] Batton< no role >

Middlesex ss}

Thomas Gobby< no role > maketh oath that divers years
ago he was duly bound Apprentice to & Served the Whole of his
apprenticeship with Sacheverd Dangerfield< no role > in the parish of Saint
Dimston in the East in the City of London Vintner & by means
thereof gained a legal Settlement there That he never rented a
house of Ten pounds a year or upwards nor ever paid any Poors
Rates or Kings Taxes nor ever Served any parish office nor ever
did any Act to gain a Subsequent Settlement And that he hath a
Wife named Jane< no role > whom he was lawfully married & a Boy
the lawful Issue of this Deponent by his Said Wife which was born
the Fourteenth day of Septemr instant about three o' Clock in
the morning

Thos Gobby< no role >