Middlesex ss}
Sarah Ray< no role >
wife
of Mr
Joseph Ray< no role >
maketh oath that she wel knows a Child named
George Powell< no role >
aged about Eleven Years now resident
in the Parish of St Botolph without Aldgate
in the
Sd County That the Said Child was born in
Nightingale
Lane
in the Parish of St John Wapping
in the Sd
County of Middlesex
She this Depont being Present
at his birth That Such Child was born a Bastard
as she this Depont has been informed by the sd Childs
Mother & which information She this Deponent
believes to be true That the Said Child to this Deponts
Knowledge or belief has not as Yet done any Act
to gain a settlement for himself.
Sworn this.3d. day of
December 1783
before
R Davies J Hawley
Sarah Ray< no role >