1788 settlement papers for Thomas and Ann Powell of Dunstable, back to Tingewick

Contributed by Pauline Murdoch

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[No. 45]
R.B.
Buckinghamshire}

We the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the
Poor of the Parish of Tingewick
in the said County do hereby certify,
own and acknowledge Tho's Powell and Ann his
wife --------

to be our Inhabitants legally settled in the said
Parish of Tingewick
in witness whereof we have hereunto set out Hands and Seals
the Twentyninth Day of March in the
Year of our Lord 1788

Attested by The mark of X James Smith
Churchwardens } John Packer
} John George
Overseers } Tho's Grantham
} Tho Holton

We whose Names are hereunto subscribed, two of
his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the
Said County of Bucks aforesaid, do allow
of the above-written Certificate. And we do also certify
that James Smith one of the Witnesses
who attested the Execution of the said Certificate, hath
this Day made Oath before us 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 John Packer & John George and Thos Grantham
and Thos Holton whose Names are subscribed,
as Witness to the Execution of the said Certificate, are re-
spectively of their own proper Hand-writing. Given under
our Hands the Twentyninth Day of March
in the Year of our Lord 1788

Jos. Bullock
Rich'd Dayrell