| Description | Overseers Debts, Cash brought over
25 May 1748: Mr Smith and Mr Sawkins
Memorandum, the late Overseers, deliver to Mr John Mitchell a note of Mr James Mayfield's hand for five pounds; opening date 10 May 1748, payable in 3 months, in lieu of his deficiencies in the last Poor Rates for 1747. The rest whereof I do hereby acknowledge. John Mitchell.
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, in Pursuance of a Warrant under the Hands and Seals of Ebenezer Mussell and John Lawton Esquire, two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace, for the said County of Middlesex, have examined the aforegoing accounts of Mr Richard Smith and Mr Dansie Sawkins, late Overseers of the Poor of the Hamlet of Poplar and Blackwall for the year 1747, and find the same true and right and that there remained in the hands of the said late Overseers the sum of thirty-four pounds, nineteen shillings and ninepence three farthings,, also the above mentioned note of five pounds from Mr Mayfield, which they have 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
George Wheatley
William Walker
William Stevens
Joseph Hefford
Henry Stilles
Henry Hall
Lawrence Hewson |