St Botolph Aldgate Parish:
Pauper Settlement, Vagrancy and Bastardy Exams
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31st August 1776 - 10th December 1777

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Image 28 of 1162nd December 1776


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Thomas Chapman< no role > maketh oath that he was hired
& lived as a hired Servant by the year by & with one Philip
Daw
< no role > of the parish of Oakham in the County of Surry Farmer
at the yearly Wages of Four pounds and Continued in Such
Service for the Space of a year That he has not Since lived as
a hired Servant for a year nor rented a house of Ten pounds
a year or Upwards or Served any Parish office or paid
any Poors Rates or Kings Taxes or done any Act to gain a
Subsequent Settlement That he hath a Wife named Mary< no role > &
a Child named Mary < no role > aged about a year & half the lawful
Issue of this Depont. by his Said wife to whom he was lawfy
married.


Sworn this. 2. day
of December 1776 before
Parkr Rowlands< no role >

The Mark of
Thomas [mark] Chapman< no role >

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Ann Ford< no role > the widow of Michael Ford< no role > deced
maketh oath that her Said late husband was by Birthan Irishman
& never did any Act to her Knowledge or belief to gain a Settlement
in any part of Great Britain That She this Deponent previous to
her marriage with her Said husband was hired & lived as a hired
Servant by the year at Certain Wages by & with one Mr Guy
a Salter in Lower Eastsmithfield in the parish of St Botolph
witht Aldgate in the Said County & Continued in Such Service
for two years & by means thereof gained a legal Settlement
there That She this Deponent upon leaving Mr Guys Service
was married to her Said late husband & that although during
her Marriage She lived as a hired Servant by the year yet Since
her sd husbands death She has not hired as a hired Servant for a
year or done any Act to gain another Settlement


Sworn this day
of December 1776 before
Saml. Wood< no role >

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




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