| Description | Monies disbursed for the hamlet of Poplar and Blackwall by Captain George Stevens, church warden in the year 1755, including the following entries:
22 April 1755: Paid Frances Clifford, lodging 3 nights
1 May 1755: Paid to Burket 'for waterage [transportation, as of goods, by water] to get a voyage.'
1 July 1755: Paid Joseph Cook, beadle, his salary and expenses as in bill
22 August 1755: Paid John Green, constable, the town's allowance
20 October 1755: Paid Joseph Cook, beadle, salary and expenses
8 December 1755: Paid Pimberton [Pemberton] Stevens, blacksmith,' for a lame man'
26 December 1755: To Walker, shoes.
Also passes given to sailors' wives and other women and children given passes, no names given |