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Booke-keeper or Overseer of the said building take care of the same; Which the premisses this deponent well and most assuredly knoweth for that hee this deponent was at Rotterdam aforesaid at such time as the said shipp the ''daniel'' was there upon the stocks a building, and did in or about the moneth of August 1654 there see and observe the said shipps fabricke, and did severall times speake and conferr with the said daniel Thyssen Jollison (who was and is this deponents brother in Law) and who had the care and mannagement of the said shipps building on the behalf of himself and others the said Owners thereof, and both by such his said conference and conversations with the said daniel Thysson Jollison and woth severall others of the said Owners and with diverse other Merchants of Zeeland, where the said Owners did and doe dwell and this deponent by such his observation, converse and publick and generall report is and declareth himselfe to be perfectly assured of the trueth of the premisses, And further saieth, That this deponent hath severall and sundry times heard both the said daniel Thysson Jollison, and others of the said shipps Owners immediately after the said shipp was built and finished say and affirme, That they had really paied or were to pay for the building of the said shipp and for the fitting and furnishing of the same with all necessaries upon her first voiage the summe of eight and twenty hundred pounds flemmish or thereabouts (as neere as this deponent now remembreth the summe,) And this deponent further saieth and deposeth, That the said Evaert Gislin Abraham van Peeren Jacob van hoorne Joris Brest daniel Thssen Jellison and others Merchants and inhabitants of fflushing and Middleborough aforesaid personally and particularly knowne to him this deponent have beene ever since the building of the said shipp generally and notoriously knowne and reputed to be the true and Lawfull Owners of the said shipp ''daniel'' and of her tackle apparrell and furniture, as this deponent hath constantly and continually heard and observed in the said Country of Zeeland, And further hee saieth not to this Interrogatorie. To the second article of the said Allegation hee saieth, That hee well knoweth, That the arlate Charles Alteras of fflushing brother to Peter Alteras of the said place and part Owner of the said shipp was by the said Owners designed to be Master of the said shipp before she was begunn or fully built, and that this deponent during the time of the said shipps building did see the said Charles Alteras at the place or stocks at Rotterdam where the said shipp was (then
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