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Colors put up, and under those Colors shee fired a broad side at and upon the ''Starr'', and her Ketch which shee had in her Company fired alsoe a Gunne or two at the ''Starr'', which hee saith was done without any occasion given, and the said [?ffiring] hee saith did much Damage to the said ships Sailes Rigging and tackle, and her Companyes lives were in great Danger. and the said company of the ''Alexander'' threatning to sinke the ''Starr'' if the Master did not come on board the ''Alexander'' the said Sprittiman was forced to leave his Ship, and goe onboard the ''Alexander'' which hee saith hee did, with four or five more of his Company. The promisses hee deposeth of Sight and Knoweledge being on board the said Ship ''Starre'' the said time, this Deponent being then one of her Companion And further cannot depose./: To the 3rd. hee saith that presently after the said Thomas Sprittiman was soe gone on board the ''Alexander'' the ''Alexander''s boate and the ''Starr''s boate brought about sixteene or seaventeene men on board the ''Starr'', and Carried all the ''Starr''s Company on board the ''Alexander'', saving this Deponent and three others, and Saith that the ''Alexander''s men and the Ketches men which soe came on board the ''Starre'' did breake open the ''Starr''s Hatches that night and drunke as much as they could insomuch that some of them were very much overtaken with Drinking the same. and in the night hee saith they filled a rundlet or two, and put the same into the Ketch in the nighttime, and the next morning hee saith that they filled all the Rundletts Jarrs and empty vessells which they could finde in the ''Starr'' and in the ''Alexander'' and Ketch, and carryed the same onboard the ''Alexander'' and the Ketch, and saith that they tooke out alsoe two whole Pipes, and two Hogsheads of wine out of the said ships Hold, and carried the same into the ''Alexander'' and Ketch, and they alsoe tooke away out of the said ship a Turky Cutlasse belonging to the Master a White Pot with a Great Silver Cover, Pannes, Spoones, Table Cloaths and Many of the Cloaths belonging to the seamen, and saith that in the said night they sailed the said ship back about sixteene or seaventeene Leages. and saith hee knoweth not what discourse passed betweene the said Sprittiman and the Captaine of the ''Alexander'' onboard the ''Alexander'', for that hee went not onboard the ''Alexander'', but saith that the said Sprittiman, and the Captaine of the ''Alexander'' and two men with him came onboard the ''Starr'' in the said morning in which the wine as aforesaid was soe sent and Carryed away, then they then
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