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Deposition of Elizabeth Green Dixon
December 3rd 1814
District of London - Personally appeared before us George C. Salmon Esquire and Thomas Bowlby Esquire two of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in and for the London District and Province of Upper Canada - Elizabeth Dixon, who being sworn upon the Holy Evangelist Deposeth and saith that John Dixon her Husband left this Country and went to the United States since the commencement of this war, and that she followed him to the neighbourhood of Buffaloe that during the time she was at that place, her Husband John Dixon John Robinson and Henry Dockstader passed over into Canada together and that she heard them say they were determined to take the lives of Colonel Thomas Talbot, Captain William Francis, Thomas Francis and William Drake. That some time about the first day of November last they returned to the House of her husband John Dixon near Buffaloe that John Dixon was wounded and died in a few hours after he reached his home, that she heard them say that they killed Captain Francis, and burnt his house and him in it. That she had seen also at the House of her husband near Buffaloe, several persons who had left the Province, and remembers seing the following persons Eber Decow, John Vandervort, John Van Atter, John Gibbs, Barney Gibbs, Martin Burnham, Guy P. Richards, George Wolfe, John Kendrick and Simon Mabee and that she was at her husband John Dixon’s funeral and five days after left the United States and came into this Province.
Signed
her
Elizabeth x Dixon
mark
Sworn before us
this 3d Decemr 1814
Signed
George C. Salmon J.P.
Thos Bowlby J.P.
A True Copy
Thomas Talbot
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