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J Wilmor
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WHEREAS Complaint hath been made unto
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us whose Hands and Seals are hereunto set,
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being two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in
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whereof being of the Ouorum) by the Church-
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and Elizabeth his wife have come to Inhabit in the said
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parish of Saint Matthew
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not having
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gained a legal Settlement there or produced a Certificate
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owning them to be settled elsewhere
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and are
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likely to
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become Chargeable to the same;
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we the said Justices, upon Examination of the Pre-
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mises upon oath and other Circumstances, do ad-
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judge the same to be true, and do also adjudge the
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place of the last legal Settlement of the said Richard
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Jordan and
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his Wife is in the said parish
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of
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THESE are therefore in his Majesty's Name and by
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virtue of the Statutes in that Behalf, to require you
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the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the
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on Sight
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hereof, to remove and convey the said Richard
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Jordan and Elizabeth his wife
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from and out of your said
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to the said Parish of Saint James in
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Dukes
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in the
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and them deliver to the Church-
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wardens and Overseers of the Poor there, or to some
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or one of them, together with this our Order, or a
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true Copy hereof, who are hereby required to re-
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ceive and provide our Hands and Seals this 31st.
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Day of July in the Year of our Lord 1779
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par. St. M: B: G: Feb: 23: 1778
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