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Stephen & Ruth Bland
Settlement Certificate from Brigstock
27th December 1770

Northamptonshire

WE the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Brigstock in the said County, do hereby certify, own and acknowledge Stephen Bland and Ruth his Wife to be Inhabitants legally settled in the Parish of Brigstock. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our Hands and Seals the Twentyseventh Day of December in the Year of our Lord 1770.

Attested by

William Viccars
John Adkins

       John Wise
      W  Brawn
      Robt Colyer
      Thos Willborn
   

To the Parish Officers of Spaldwick in the County of Huntingdon

WE whose Names are hereunto subscribed, two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Northampton aforesaid, do allow of the above-written Certificate. And we do also certify, that William Viccars one of the Witnesses who attested the Execution of the said Certificate, hath this Day made Oath before us that the said Justices, that he did see the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor, whose Names and Seals are hereunto subscribed and set, severally sign and seal the same; and that the Names of the said William Viccars and of John Adkins, whose Names are subscribed as Witness to the Execution of the said Certificate, are respectively of their own proper Hand-writing. Given under our Hands the Twenty Eighth Day of December in the Year of our Lord 1770
J Hill
T C Maunsell

 

Note: This certificate is part of the collection of Desborough Settlement Certificates at the Northamptonshire Record Office, though there is no mention of Desborough in the certificate.