I am a man, named John Smith, born in the parish of St. James, in the city of Boston,

I am a man, named John Smith, born in the parish of St. James, in the city of Boston, in Massachusetts, in America, in the year 1798, being now in the twenty-fourth year of my age. I am a printer by trade, and have been already some time in Holland House, where I have been taught to be a good deal of a soldier. I am come hither to England, to become more of a soldier still, being enlisted