HCA 13/72 f.143r Annotate

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1. to make for Virginia first advise and desire
2. the sayd Moulson to alter the sayd shipps course and steere for the next
3. Port shee could make to for preservation of the shipp and her Companyes lives
4. and her ladeing, and told him that unlesse hee did soe, the shipp and her
5. ladeing and all their lives would be in eminent danger of persihing,
6. and seeing hims till refuse to doe soe, then threatened him severall tymes
7. to shutt him up or make him fast in his Cabbin and carrie the shipp
8. to the next Convenient port they could gett to, whether hee would or
9. noe, that soe they might preserve their owne lives and the lives of the
10. passengers and save the sayd shipp and her ladeing if possible, whereupon
11. the sayd Moulson seeing the eminent danger the shipp was
12. in and the great desyre her Company had to make for the
13. next land did upon Christmas day at night
14. or on the next day in the morning in the sayd yeare
15. 1654 (being the day arlate) cause the helme of the
16. shipp to bee borne up, soe as to beare the shipp right before the
17. winde and they the foresayle to bee begunne to be hoysted, and the
18. same being in hoysteing the winde was soe terrible that it
19. blew it away ˹although the same were ballanied at both the yard Armes˺ and the sayd shipp as hee hath predeposed came
20. in January next after to Antego And further to theise articles
21. hee cannot depose./
22. To the 16th and 17th articles hee saith hee as not present at the makeing of the
23. protest arlate, but knoweth that while this deponent stayed at Antego the arlate
24. Christopher Kennell Esquire the Governour of Antego and one Captaine Jolly
25. and some others came aboard the ˹Unitie˺ to take a view of her
26. but what was done therein hee knoweth not for that hee went presently after
27. their being aboard from Antego to Mevis And therefore cannot further
28. depose to these articles./
29. To the 18th saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose to this article
30. To the 19th hee cannot depose hee being gone from Antego before the passengers
31. were disposed of/
32. To the 20th hee saith hee knoweth that the arlate Jacob Moulson did procure
33. diver passengers servants in Ireland to goe the voyage in
34. question, and could not chose but bee at charges thereabout, but what those
35. Charges did amount to hee knoweth not And further to this article hee
36. cannot depose/
37. To 21th hee saith that after this deponents departure from Antego hee went
38. to Mevis and thense to Saint Christophers, and the Boatswaine and his Mate
39. and the Chirugion of the shipp Unitie being then at Saint Christophers,
40. there told this deponent, that they and other the rest of the Unities Company
41. had complayned against the sayd Moulson before the Governour of Antega for
42. non payment of their wages, and brought a suite against him there for the same,
43. and that the sayd Moulson was Condemned to pay the same, but did not XXXX
44. <margin value="Bottom right, under main body of text, as lead to next page">to</margin>
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Antego (modern Antigua)

First colonised by Europeans in 1632, when English men established a settlement

Cultivation of sugar was introduced in XXX
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Wikipedia article on Antego

Detail of negro houses and sugar works from a 1821 plan of an Antiguan sugar estate ^[1]

- Plan lists extensive works and buildings: windmill, boiling house, copper hole shed, curing house, rum cellar, stills and worm cisterns, the Magasys house, overseers rooms, sick-house and laying in room, the great house and out offices, mule penn, cattle penn

Joan Vinceboons, map titled 'De Eylanded en Vastelanded van West Indien', 1639, showing the location of Antego (Antigua) relative to Virginia and Barbados^[2]

- Bibliographical information^[3]

[1] James H. Baker, 'A Plan of the Estate Called Jonas's Situated in the Division of North Sound in the Island of Antigua, the Property of Peter Langford Brooke, Esquire' (1821), 1 color manuscript map; 59 x 65 centimeters, Scale approximately 1:3,000, World Digital Library, viewed 14/05/13

[2] Joan Vinceboons, map titled 'De Eylanded en Vastelanded van West Indien', (1639), manuscript map : pen and ink watercolor, paper backing ; 48 x 69 centimeters, Scale approximately 1:170,000, World Digital Library, viewed 14/05/13

[3] Joan Vinceboons, The Islands and Mainland of the West Indies, 1639, viewed 14/05/13

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Volume	HCA 13/72
Folio	143
Side	Recto
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First cut transcription started and completed on 06/03/13 by Colin Greenstreet; edited on 29/04/13 by Colin Greenstreet
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13/03/06
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Created 28/04/13, by CSG

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