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deposeth, That in or about the moneth of A … deposeth, That in or about the moneth of August last past, hee this deponet<br />
received on board his said shipp the ''Saint John'' then lying at the kay of Roane in<br />
ffrance and bound from thence for Hamborough three bales, two fatts and one<br />
Case of Merchandizes respectively marked and numbred as in the margent
[MARKE, LH MARGIN]
from Dierich Warnicke his precontest and John Robert a ffactor at Roane,<br />
who severall times before at and after the lading of the said goods, did severally<br />
declare and affirem to this deponent that the said goods were by them to be laden<br />
and afterwards really were laden for the proper accompt and adventure of the<br />
said Claus Luys a Merchant of Hamborough, and were to be transported<br />
in the said shipp from Roane to Hamburgh aforesaid and there to be delivered<br />
to the said Claus Luys or his assignes for his accompt. And saith that<br />
shortly after the lading of the said parcells of Merchandizes this deponent at<br />
Roane signed three bills of lading all of one tenour for the same, two whereof<br />
hee delivered to the said John Robert in the presence of derick Warnicke his<br />
precontest, and the third hee kept and brought aboard his said shipp wherein the<br />
same was seized, and by the seizors, as hee beleeveth, brought or sent up into<br />
the Registry of this Court where it now remaineth, And saith that the said bill<br />
of lading now showne into him was and is one of the originall bills of lading<br />
signed by this deponent at Roane for the goods aforesaid, and that the Contents<br />
thereof were and are reall and true, and so had and done as therein is<br />
contained. And otherwise cannot depose./
To the third and fourth hee saith, hee was not present at the buying of the<br />
goods in question, and therefore saving his foregoing deposition and saving the bill<br />
of lading predeposed, to which hee referreth himselfe he saith hee cannot<br />
depose:-/
To the 5th hee saith the said shipp the ''Saint John'' being in her Course from<br />
Roane for Hamburgh, the goods in question, and the rest of her lading then<br />
being aboard her were surprized and taken by a Private man of warr of<br />
this Nation and broght into the Port of Dover by the seizors, this deponent<br />
then being Master of and aboard his said shipp:-
To the 6th hee saith hee hath knowne the interrate Claus Luys for 20 yeares<br />
last and upwards a Merchant and Burgher of Hamburgh, and a Subject<br />
of that free State, and for such the said Claus Luys was and is generlly<br />
knowne at Hamborough. And otherwise cannot depose:-/
To the 7th hee saith his foregoing deposition is true:/
To the Crosse Interrogatories:-
To the first Interrogatorie he saith hee cometh to be a Wittnesse in this Cause at<br />
the instance of Mr ffrancklin a Proctor of this Court, And otherwise<br />
negatively. And further cannot depose.
To the second hee saith hee this rendent is a Hamburger by birth and<br />
habitation there from his infancie./
To the third hee referreth himselfe to his foregoing deposition.
To the 4th hee saith hee came last from Hamburgh with his aid shipp the<br />
(''Saint''h his aid shipp the<br />
(''Saint'' +
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