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Know all Men by these Presents that I
Zacharias Williams of the Parish of Probus in the County
of Cornwall Blacksmith am held and firmly Bound unto
Joseph Seccombe and William Kessle Yeomen Church
Wardens, and John Roberts and Edward Arthur Yeomen
Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Probus (in
Trust for the Parishioners of the said Parish) in the
sum of Fifty Pounds of good and lawful Money of Great
Britain to be paid to the said Joseph Seccombe William
Kessle John Roberts and Edward Arthur or their Certain
Attorney their Executors Administrators or Assigns; To
which Payment well and truly to be made I bind myself my
Heirs Executors and Administrators, firmly by these
Presents. Sealed with my Seal and Dated the Third Day of
February in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of Our
Sovereign Lord George the third of Great Britain, France
and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth and
in the year of Our Lord One Thousand seven Hundred and
Seventy Nine.
The Condition of this Obligation is such that Whereas
Jennifer Annear of the said Parish of Probus Singlewoman
hath in and by her Voluntary Examination taken in
Writing and upon Oath before Francis Gregor Esquire One
of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in and for the
said County the Second Day of February Instant hath
declared that on the Twenty Seventh Day of December last
past in the said Parish of Probus she the said Jennifer
Annear was delivered of a Female Bastard Child not yet
named and that the said Bastard Child is likely to
become chargeable to the said Parish of Probus, and that
the said Zacharias Williams is the Father of the said
Child. If therefore the said Zacharias Williams his
Heirs Executors or Administrators doth and shall from
time to time and at all times hereafter fully and
clearly indemnify and save harmless, as well the above
named Church Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the
said Parish of Probus and their Successors for the time
being as also all and singular the other Parishioners
and Inhabitants of the said Parish of Probus which now
are or hereafter shall be for the time being, of and
from all manner of Costs, Taxes, Rates, Assessments and
Charges whatsoever, for or by reason of the Birth
Education and maintenance of the said Child and of and
from all actions, suits, Troubles and other Charges and
Demands whatsoever, touching or concerning the same that
then this Present Obligation to be Void otherwise of
force.
| Signed Sealed and Delivered (being |
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| first duly stamped) in presence of us |
) (signed) Zach Williams |
| the above Interlinations being first
made |
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| (signed) William Moorman |
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| (signed) George Simmons |
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Source:- LDS Film No. 1596397
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