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And further hee to this Article hee cannot of his owne knowledge depose
further or otherwise, then that about six weekes after the said
seizure, this deponent being as prisoner in and aboard the said shipp
Mary sawe the said shipp Rappahannacke in the power and
possession of the said Scroll and others the Officers and Companies
of the said two shipps, by when shee had alsoe beene in a violent
and hostile manner surpirzed and taken togeather with the
Negroes and goods aboard her at this deponent both then and since hath
been sufficiently informed and assured./

To the 6th hee saith, That the said shipps by which the seizure aforesaid ˹was˺
made were dutch built shipps according to this deponents observation
and at the time of the seizure of the said shipp Sarah wore the
Dutch colours and the said shipp Marie was belonging to Amsterdam
and the other shipps to Middleborough in Zeeland; and were both
15. of them sett out from the Texill of Amsterdam in Holland with their
16. respective Cargoes of goods and merchandises designed to trade for
17. Negroes in the parts of Guimney, and that the Owners of the same
18. were Dutchmen and Subjects of the States of the United Netherlands
19. and lived at Amsterdam and Middleborough or other places in the
20. said provinces, and that the Steeresman of the said shipp the Mary did
21. declare to this deponent that the said shipp Mary was at Amsterdam
22. aforesaid expressely built to be employed under the Command of the
23. said Scroll, whoe came Master or her from thence The premisses
24. hee knoweth partly by ocular observation, and partly by the frequent
25. acknowledgment of severall of the Companie of the said shipp Mary
26. during such time as this depon:ent was and remained prisoner aboard
27. her: And further cannot depose:-/

28. To the seaventh Article hee saith. That this depo:nen˹t˺ during his said
29. restraint did alsoe understand be the confession and acknowledgement of
30. seuerall of the said shipps Companie, and particularly of the said
31. Steeresman, that the said Scroll was a Hollander, and a Native of ˹and inhabitant of˺ or
32. about Monickendam in that Countrey, as this deponent remembereth the
33. name of the place, and that one [?Claes] Prince who was Merchant
34. in and aboard the said Dutch shipps was by the like common relation
35. said to bee of Huesden in the said United Provinces, and that the said
36. Steeresmen, Gunners, Carpenters, Chirurgions and all or most
37. of the said shipps Companie were and acknowledged themselves to
38. bee of Holland or Zeeland and Subjects of the said United provinces
39. And further to this article hee cannot depose
40. To the eighth hee saith, that hee this deponent with others of the
41. said restraint coming to the Barbadoes arlate in the moneth of
42. December last there saw and observed that severall Negroes being
43. there newly arrived were readily bartered away and diposed
44. of for at the least five and twenty hundred weight of sugar for

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