Desborough Study : Settlement Records
Jonathan Page
Settlement Certificate from Rushton
6th November 1775
To wit.
WE The Church-Wardens and
Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Rushton in the County of Northampton aforesaid, do hereby own and acknowledge
Jonathan Page Labourer to be an Inhabitant legally settled in the parish of
Rushton in the County of Northampton aforesaid. In Witness whereof, we have hereunto
set our Hands and Seals, this Sixth Day of November in the Sixteenth 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 1775
Attested by
Thomas Page
Charles Burdit
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Churchwardens
Thos Smith
Willm Rasin
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Overseers of the poor
Thomas Essam
George Nunns |
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To the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor of
the Parish
of P....on 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 Thomas Page 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 Thomas Page and Charles
Burdit whose names are
above-subscribed, as Witnesses to the Execution of the said
Certificate, are of their own proper Hand-writing.
Dated the Sixth Day of November in the Year 1775
J Hill
T C Maunsell |
Note: This Certificate is filed with the Desborough Records at the Record
Office, though it does not appear to have been addressed to Desborough (see the
word following 'Parish of':
Desborough is about 3 miles west of Rushton