Desborough Study : Settlement Records
John Crisp
Settlement Certificate
from Crick
30 January
1758
To the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
Desborough in the County of Northampton.
We the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish
of Crick in
the County of Northampton aforesaid Do hereby own and acknowledge John
Crisp, Weaver to be an Inhabitant legally settled in our said parish of
Crick and we do hereby promise for our selves and Successors to receive
him in our said Parish
when ever he shall become chargeable.
In Witness whereof we
the said Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the parish of Crick
aforesaid have hereunto
respectively set our Hands and Seals this Thirtieth Day of
January in the One and Thirtieth Year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great
Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so
forth and in the year of our Lord One
Thousand Seven hundred and Fifty Eight.
Witness
Wm Billington
Jno Price
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Gilbert Sabin
Tho Hedding
Church Wardens
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Thomas Killworth
Willm Henfree
Overseers of the Poor
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| We whose Names are hereunto Subscribed two of his
Majesties Justices of the Peace to and for the County of Northampton
aforesaid Do allow the above written Certificate. And We do also Certifie that
William Billington, One of the Witnesses, who attested the
Execution of the said Certificate has made Oath before us, that he
did See the Churchwardens and Overseers Whose Names and
Seals are to this said Certificate, Subscribed and Set, Severally sign
and Seal this said Certificate, and that the Names of the said
Attesting Witnesses Whose Names are above Subscribed as Witnesses to
the Execution of the said Certificate, are of their own
proper Hand Writing. Dated the Thirtieth Day of January and in the
year of our Lord 1758. |
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T: Ward
J Bateman |
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Desborough is about 17 miles north east of Crick
(the map shows only the area about Crick itself)