| 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 cash paid sundry tradesmens' bills etc, continued:
8 April 1746: Paid John Mabbett, tallow chandler
8 April 1746: Paid George Wheatley, gardener
8 April 1746: Paid John Harding, cheesemonger
11 April 1746: Paid William Walker, churchwarden
22 April 1746: Paid Richard Hager, two bills for coffins and shrouds
25 April 1746: Paid James Rogers
25 April 1746: Paid John Bellamy, baker
25 April 1746: Paid John Stevens, smith
25 April 1746: Paid George Watts, town clerk, his year's bill for 1745
25 April 1746: Paid Joseph Cook, his bill of expenses
25 April 1746: Paid Thomas Evans, constable for 1745
25 April 1746: Paid John Phillips, for peas etc.
25 April 1746: Paid John Bellamy, for two penny bread for the year 1745
By cash paid sundry bills by Mr Joseph Hefford as follows:
9 August 1745: 'Paid assistants with imprest men to Whitechapel' [impressed into a press gang. This refers to the taking of men into a military or naval force by compulsion, with or without notice]
9 August 1745: Paid for beer, bread and cheese for the same
6 July 1745: Paid James Goater, linen draper
5 October 1745: Paid Elizabeth Wade, butcher
22 November 1745: Paid Christopher Briggs, two bills for cloth
December 1745: Paid Grace Guignard, for half year's physic to Christmas 1745
December 1745: Paid John Stannion, barber
8 January 1746: Paid Elizabeth Wade, butcher
15 January 1746: Paid Charles Walter, for junk
6 February 1746: Paid Joseph Hefford, for milk
6 February 1746: Paid Anne Guest, house [workhouse] mistress
6 February 1746: Paid John Chester, for poor's clothes
6 February 1746: Paid Christopher Briggs, for cloth
6 February 1746: Paid, by cash, Mr Joseph Hefford, his expenses in collecting |