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1. hee this exáminate went master, and comming there to an anchor, the said shipp
2. was the same day soone after such her comming to an anchor set upon and seized
3. by the shipps the Mary of Amsterdam and the Unicorne of Middleborowe both
4. under the command of John Scrole, a dutchman and subiect of the states of
5. the United Netherlands ...... dwelling in holland as hee was commonly said and
6. acknowledged to be. And being soe seized this deponent and soe most of his
7. company were carried prisoners aboard the said shipp the Mary, where comming
8. hee met with George Paris arlate..... commander of the said shipp the
9. ......... ˹ffortune˺ hee (being alsoe a prisoner) told and acquainted this deponent
10. and company howe that his said shipp the .....˹ffortune˺ with an hundred ninetie odd
11. Negroe's in her had bin taken five dayes before by the said two dutch shipps
12. and hee and company dispossessed of the said shipp ..... ˹ffortune˺ and Negroes, and
13. soe much the said Scroll and company alsoe confessed, --- namely that they
14. had taken the said shipp ............ ˹ffortune˺ and Negroes, and the after such seizure
15. of this deponent, hee sawe the said Scrolls men fetch, some of the ...... ˹ffortunes˺
16. Negroes out of her, (shee then lying neerely) and ˹this deponent˺ sawe a greate many
17. lustie able Negroe's amongst them, and after they had soe taken out
18. all the Negroe's and the shipps guns, rigging, sailes and masts and
19. appurtenances, they set the hull on fire, and destroyed the same of his
20. deponents sight, And saith the said .......... Negroes were alsoe said to be
21. belonging to the said Silvester Colleton and company. And otherwise hee
22. cannot depose, saving what followeth, and saving the said Scrole and
23. ordered the said Negroe's to be put aboard an English shipp which hee
24. .......................... ˹afterwards tooke˺ from Captaine GraXXXXs, and soe utterly deprived the
25. owners of the said shipp ..... ˹ffortune˺ and Negro's, of the same shipp and Negro's.
26. To the third ˹fourth˺ hee saith the said shipp ...... Mary was at the time of the
27. said seizure dutch built, ... and the Unicorne belowe was Portuguese built
28. but above built of dutch built, and they had both dutch colours,
29. and were belonging and appertaining the Mary (as her confessed
30. company confessed) to Amsterdam. and the Unicorne to Middleborowe
31. and were set out from holland, and their companies ............ were
32. most or many of them dutch, and all or the cheifest of their offciers were
33. dutch, And when they tooke this deponents shipp they had the Prince of
34. Orange his flagge ˹and Ensaigne˺ out. And otherwise hee cannot depose, saving hee
35. there heard one Vandergoose ... of the Netherlands said and named to bee
36. one of their setters out.
37. To the fifth hee cannot depose saving as aforesaid.
38. To the sixth ............ hee saith hee this deponent ˹went˺ going shortly
39. after to the Barbada's; where hee sawe Negroes ˹(that came from the coast of Ginny)˺ sold or bartered
40. away ... some ..... seaven and twenty hundred, others at eight and twenty hundred
41. and others at 30 hundred ˹pounds˺ weight of sugar, and this hee saith was in
42. or about the beginning of december last, and after the rate ... the
43. said Negroes of the ffortune would have yeelded in his estimation one
44. with the other, being for the most part very lustie able Negroes.
45. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
46. To the seaventh hee saith hee cannot estimate the valuw of the
47. shipp ˹ffortune and her˺ tackle and furniture; not having bin aboard her till all her
48. tackle, furniture, masts sailes and goods were laden out of her, ˹which was˺ ..... on
49. the same day before shee was fired as aforesaid
50. Thomas Thompson SIGNATURE, RH SIDE
51. Repeated before Collonel Cock.
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