| Description | Recognizance made by George Douthwaite of the township of Exelby, Leeming and Newton carpenter and Edward Stewardson of the parish of Bedale attorney at law for the appearance of Douthwaite at the next Quarter Sessions as father of the bastard child of Sarah Sedgwick of Exelby, Leeming and Newton singlewoman, born on 16 February 1801 in the township of Exelby, Leeming and Newton and now chargeable to that township |