MRP: C 6/151Pt2/28 f. 3
C 6/151Pt2/28 f. 3
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//The Joynt and Severall Answeares of Abraham Greaves and Sarah his wife two of the defd:ts to the Bill of Complaynt of James Moudiford Robert Dawes//
//Jonathan Dawes and William Ryder John Portman John Robinson Isaac Taylor and Paul Priaulx Complainants//
//The said Defend:ts now and att all times hereafter saving themselves and either of them all benefitt and advantage of excepcon to the manifest incertaintys insufficiencys and other imperfeccons of the Complaynants//
//said Bill of Complaint for asmuch as concerneth them or either of them to make answeare unto they answereare and say And first the said def:t Sarah for herselfe respectively answereth and saith that she hath heard that the//
//Complyn:ts of some of them and the pther persons in the said Bill of Complaint named about the time in the bill mencconed were part owners together with the said John Jefferson this defd:ts late husband of the good shipp called the//
//Thomas and William but of how many parts in the said shipp they or any of them were part owners this defd:t knoweth not except onely that the said Jefferson this defd:ts late husband was part owner of ?tenne XXX two and thirtieth//
//parts of the said ship the same being devided into two and thirty parts and two and thirtieth parts hereof was mortgaged to the said Phillip Scarth in the Bill named a Complayn:t who as this defd:t is informed dyed before the Complaynants Bill was//
//exhibited And two other two and thirtieth parts of the same ship was mortgaged unto the said Abraham ??Manse in the Bill named by this defendants late husband John Jefferson And the said defd:t Sarah further saith XXXX XXXX XXXX//
//former husband John Jefferson had the care management and was Captain of the said ship and did as this defendant beleiveth make a contract with the said XXXXXXX//
//Thomas Smith or some other of the then Comissioners of the Navy for letting out to hire the said ship and that the same was reduced by way of Articles of agreement into writing about the time in the Bill menconned XXXXXXXX//
//But the contents of the sayd writing shee XXXXX not but for her certainty therein shereferreth her selfe unto the said writing And this defend:t Sarah denyeth XXXXX//
//fitted furnished victualled and manned at the charges of the owners thereof as in the said Bill is suggested for that this defend:t beleiveth adn hath beene informed by her said husband John Jefferson that the same was so XXXXXX//
//John Jefferson for in his life time and that he was at the greatest charge thereof and was forced to contract many debts for the ships use which the other owners have hither to refused to allow or contribute their severall proporcons And this XXXX//
//XXXX saieth that the said ship being so as aforesaid fitted about the thirtieth day of Aprill in the yeare of Our Lord one thousand six hundred fifty and two entred into the States service and that the said John Jefferson was captain of the shipp//
//during that service w:ch as this defed:t beleiveth continued by the space of one whole yeare thence next
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