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<p n="917"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
to wit <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n917-1">Eleanor Johnson</rs>
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Aged about Twenty Six years on<lb></lb>
her Oath Says she never was Married Rented House or paid Taxes<lb></lb>
says she lived a hired yearly<rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35807_occ542"> Servant</rs>
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with one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n917-2">John Baker</rs>
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a<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35807_occ543">Stone Mason</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1496"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1497"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1498">Water Street</rs>
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in the Parish of St Clement Danes</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the County of Middlesex</rs>
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for Three years and a half at the<lb></lb>
yearly Wages of Five Pounds hath Quitted her said Service<lb></lb>
upwards of Ten years ago and hath not Since Quitting the same<lb></lb>
ever Rented House paid Taxes lived a hired yearly Servant<lb></lb>
for one year any otherwise gained a subsequent Settlement<lb></lb>
And further on her Oath says that on the <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35807_date336">17th day July<lb></lb>
1773</rs>
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she was delivered of a female Bastard Child named<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n917-14">Mary</rs>
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, in the house of one Mr Martin a Blacksmith in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1499"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1500"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1501"> <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1502">Wild Court</rs>
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Wild Street</rs>
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in the Parish of St Giles in the<lb></lb>
fields</rs>
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in the said County of Middlesex</rs>
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, and further upon<lb></lb>
her Oath say that one <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n917-3">William Waits</rs>
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, late a <rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35807_occ544">footman</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n917-4">John<lb></lb>
Barwell</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WCCDEP35807_occ545">Esqr</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1503">Golden Square</rs>
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and who is now (as she<lb></lb>
believes) gone to <rs type="placeName" id="WCCDEP35807_geo1504">India</rs>
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, but with what Captain and on<lb></lb>
board what Ship she cannot set forth, but that he the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n917-5">William Waits</rs>
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and no other person did beget the same<lb></lb>
and that he is the real and true father thereof</p>
<p n="918">Sworn this <rs type="date" id="WCCDEP35807_date337">13th day<lb></lb>
of Novr 1775</rs>
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before}</p>
<p n="919">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WCCDEP35807_n919-1">Eleanor<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Johnson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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