| Description | Mr Joseph Hefford and Captain George Stevens late Overseers of the Poor of the Hamlet of Poplar and Blackwall in the parish of Stepney for the year 1745.
By deficiencies in the second poor rate, mainly arrears in payment:
Lord Witherington 28 acres
Lord Witherington 75 acres
John Warren
Benjamin Hopkins
Walter Collet
Henry Player
Roberts for Folly 1 acre
Catchpole
John Horton
By cash paid sundry tradesmens' bills etc:
9 July 1745: Paid Widow Woodman
10 July 1745: Paid Joseph Bell, shoemaker
10 July 1745: Paid John Stannion, barber
10 July 1745: Anne Guest, workhouse mistress
20 July 1745: Paid Thomas Lammas, glazier
30 July 1745: Paid Daniel Webb, apothecary
12 September 1745: Paid Elizabeth Bird 'and another poor woman'
16 September 1745: Paid Alexander Norcliffe, for junk
19 September 1745: Paid Jane Wilcox, poor
24 September 1745: Paid 4 men impressed [into a press gang, this refers to the taking of men into a military or naval force by compulsion, with or without notice]
24 September 1745: Paid 'two soldiers, their wives and children'
26 September 1745: Joseph Cook, beadle |