| Description | Mr John Brown to the Hamlet) - debit cash brought forward. Received of Mr John Smith and Mr Lawrence Hewson late Overseers of the Poor for 1746 the balance of their account. Cash received of Mr Dansie Sawkins and Mr Richard Smith, Overseers of the Poor for 1747.
We (among others) whose names are subscribed inhabitants of the Hamlet of Poplar and Blackwall in the Parish of Stepney in the county of Middlesex have pursuant to a warrant from Ebenezer Mussell and John Lawton esquires, two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said county examined the aforegoing accounts of Mr John Brown, Churchwarden of the said hamlet for the year 1747 and find by the same that there remains in the hands of the said Mr John Brown the sum of threepence farthing which he has this day paid into the hands of Mr John Mitchell the present Churchwarden of the said Hamlet. Witnessed our hand 24 May 1748 John Pharoah William Walker William Stevens Joseph Hefford Henry Stilles Lawrence Hewson |