Middlesex
&
Westmr.}
Alice Allan< no role >
Aged about Thirty Years on her Oath
Says she never was married Rented House or paid
Taxes Says she lived a hired Yearly Servant
with one
Mr. Nelson an Oilman in
the Strand
in the Parish of
St. Clement Danes
upwards of One Year at the Yearly Wages
of Seven pounds since which time she has never done any
Act whereby to gain a Subsequent Settlement And further upon
her Voluntary Oath Says she is Pregnant with Child or Children
which is or are likely to be born a Bastard or Bastards and to
become Chargable to the said Parish she being poor & unable
to maintain the same when born Says that one Captain
Wm.
Richards< no role >
of the 66 Regiment of Foot and who is now at
Edinburgh
had Carnal Knowledge of her Body in her said
Masters House on the Sixteenth
or Seventeenth day of
December last
at which time he got her with Child
of the Child or Children of which she is now pregnant
And that the said
William Richards< no role >
and no other
Person did beget the same and that he is the real and
true father thereof
Sworn this 27th. day of
July 1774
before
William Addington< no role >
.
her
Alice [mark] Allan< no role >
Mark