Middlesex ss.

Elizabeth Dawson< no role > the Wife of Robert Dawson< no role >
(who has left her) and Thomas Gibson< no role > of the Parish
of St. Botolph without Aldgate in the County of
Middlesex Severally make Oath & Say And first
the said Elizabeth Dawson< no role > for herself Saith that
she was lawfully Married to her said Husband
at Aldgate Church London on or about the Twenty
Seventh Day of October One Thousand Seven
Hundred & Ninety four , that her said Husband
about Eleven Months ago entered on Board His
Majesty's Ship the Salisbury & where he now is
she cannot tell that she can give no Account
respecting the place of Settlement of her said
Husband or his Father or Mother or either of them
Nor can she give any Account of the Settlement
of her own Father or Mother or either of them,
That she this Deponent was Born in Malaga
Court in the Parish of St. John Wapping in the
County of Middlesex as she has been informed
by her late Father that she has never been an
Apprentice or lived as a hired Servant by the
Year in any Parish or Place for the space of
One Year together or done any Act to her knowledge
or Belief to gain a Settlement in her own right
(except her Marriage as aforesd.) And Further saith
that being Poor & not able to Provide for herself
she has been obliged to apply to the Overseers of
the Poor of the said Parish of St. Botolph
Without Aldgate for Relief & has been relieved
by them accordingly And the said Thomas
Gibson for himself saith that he was present at