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Settlement Papers for Benjamin Garland & Family, dated
19 April 1759
Cornwall to wit. To the Church-Wardens and
Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Landlivery in the County aforesaid
and to each and every of you to Remove and to convey
As also to the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
Luxillion in the County of Cornwall These.
WHEREAS Complaint has been made by you the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the
Poor of the Parish of Landlivery aforesaid, unto Us whose Hands and
Seals are hereunto set, Two of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace (One being of
the Quorum) for the said County of Cornwall That Benjamin Garland
Mary his Wife Daniel aged ten years James aged seven years Richard aged two
years Mary aged thirteen years and Elizabeth aged four years Sons and Daughters
of the said Mary and Benjamin Garland lately intruded themselves
into your said Parish of Landlivery there to inhabit as Parishioners
contrary to the Laws relating to the Settlement of the Poor, and are likely
to become Chargeable there: And whereas upon due Examination and Enquiry
made into the premises by Us the said Justices, and on the Oath of the said
Benjamin Garland it appears unto us, and we accordingly adjudge, that the
said Benjm Garland Mary his Wife Daniel James and Richard their Sons and
Mary and Elizabeth their Daughters are likely to become Chargeable and that
their last legal place of Settlement was in the said Parish of
Luxillion where they ought to be Removed, as the Law in that Case
directs.
THESE are therefore, in His Majesty’s Name, to Order and Require you the
Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Landlivery
aforesaid, That you, or some of you, do Forthwith Remove and Convey the said
Benjm Garland Mary his Wife Daniel James and Richard their Sons and Mary and
Elizabeth their Daughters from your said Parish of Landlivery to
the Parish of Luxillion aforesaid, and them deliver to the
Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor there, or some one of them together
with this our Order or a true Copy hereof; whereby they are likewise Required,
in His Majesty’s Name, and by Virtue of the Statutes in such Case made,
Forthwith to Receive the said Benjm Garland Mary his Wife Daniel James and
Richard their Sons and Mary and Elizabeth their Daughters into your said
Parish of Luxillion and provide for them as their own
Parishioners according to Law. Given under our Hands and Seals, the
nineteenth Day of April in the thirty second Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Second, by the Grace of God of
Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, King, and so forth, and in the Year of our
Lord, One thousand, Seven Hundred, fifty nine
(signed & sealed) J. Fortescue
(signed & sealed) N. Trevanion
N.B. Word in italics are hand-written
insertions in a pre-printed document.
Words in both italics and brackets are
inserted by the transcriber e.g. (signed). Spellings are as
found.
Source: LDS Film No. 1596594, CRO Ref DDP. 130/13/3/6
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