Desborough Study : Settlement Records
John & Ann Foster
Settlement Certificate from Braybrook
20th September 1770
Northampton Shire To wit.
WE Samuel Spencer, Joseph Andrew, Richard Underwood and
William Darling Junr Church-Wardens and
Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Braybrook in the County of Northampton aforesaid, do hereby own and acknowledge
John Foster and Ann his Wife to be Inhabitants legally settled in the parish of
Braybrook aforesaid. In Witness whereof, we have hereunto
set our Hands and Seals, this twentieth Day of September in the Tenth Year of the
reign
of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God, of
Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender
of the Faith &c. And in the Year of our Lord 1770
Attested by
Robt Tolton
John Darling
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Churchwardens
James Spencer
Joseph Andrew
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Overseers of the poor
Richard Underwood
William Darling |
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To the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor of
the Parish
of Desborough in the County of
Northampton or to any,
or either of them.
WE whose Names are hereunto subscribed, two of his
Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Northampton
aforesaid, do allow of the above-written Certificate. And we do also
certify, that John Darling the Witness who attested the Execution of
the said Certificate, has made Oath before us that he did see the
Church-Warden and Overseers, whose Names and Seals are to the said
Certificate subscribed and set, severally sign and seal the said
Certificate, and that the Names of the said Robert Tolton and John
Darling whose names are
above-subscribed, as Witnesses to the Execution of the said
Certificate, are of their own proper Hand-writing.
Dated the 22d Day of September in the Year 1770
J Hill
B Bridges |
Note: this Certificate was entered on a printed form
Desborough is less than 3 miles east south east of Braybrook