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parcell videlicet of forty baggs was weigh … parcell videlicet of forty baggs was weighed and delivered and before any more<br />
baggs were weighed and delivered out of the sayd 300 hundred and odd baggs of ginger<br />
there was one hundred baggs ginger weighed out of the remaynder of the sayd 300 hundred and odd baggs and sett by for one Swinnock<br />
(whome this deponent belleveth to be the party in this suite) and the same being weighed<br />
was removed and sett into an other warehouse at Ralphes Key next adioyning to the<br />
same warehouse where teh remaynder of the sayd 300 hundred and odd baggs laye, to be kept for the<br />
use of the sayd Swinnock, And hee saith that every of the parcells of ginger<br />
weighed out of the sayd 300 hundred and off baggs and delivered or sett by for the ise of<br />
those who bought them, were indifferently and impartially divided from the<br />
whole three hundred and odd baggs, and taken iust as they arose out of the whole<br />
heape of baggs by this deponent and his sayd precontests without picking or chooseing#out any particular baggs, soe that this deponent well knoweth that they who bought<br />
the rest of the ginger arlate had noe greater benefit by takeing their parcells<br />
first, then they would have had if the sayd Swinnock had taken his hundred<br />
baggs first, the premisses hee deposeth being as aforesayd one of the sayd<br />
Commissioners porter, and present at, and helpeing in the first<br />
takeing in of the whole three hundred and odd baggs from on shippp board into the sayd<br />
warehouse, and alsoe helpeing to weigh every of the parcells sold out of the<br />
same, and helpeing to weigh and sett by the sayd hundred baggs for the sayd Swinnock<br />
And further hee cannot depose./
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./
To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee cometh to testifie the truth in this cause<br />
by the procurement of the sayd Commissioners and hath noe share or intereste<br />
in the ginger Interrogated nor is any of the warehouse keepers Interrogate, and saith<br />
the ginger Interrogated lay in a warehouse at Ralphs Key, where this deponent sawe it often<br />
during the tyme Interrogated having occasion often to goe thereunto by reason hee is a<br />
porter imployed by the sayd Commissioners to deliver such goods as they sell, but<br />
how many tymes hee was therein hee cannot certainly remember./
To the second Interrogatorie hee saith hee knoweth there was three hundred and odd baggs<br />
of ginger in the whole parcell, and saith hee knoweth not by name any of the persons<br />
who bought the sayd ginger nor knoweth of anylotts cast for the same, nor whose<br />
lott was first if any lotts were made of the same, and saith that the hundred<br />
baggs sett out for the sayd Swinnock were weighed and sett by out of the remaynder of the whole next after the forty<br />
baggs aforesayd were weighed and delivered, and saith they who bought warrants<br />
from the sayd Commissioners for receiving their parts of the said<br />
ginger did (without any lotts cast that this deponent noweth of) receive their parts<br />
out of the whole according as this deponent and his precontests delivered the same unto<br />
them, videlicet hee that receaved the sayd 40 baggs, receaved the same out of the whole three<br />
hundred and odd baggs as it arose, and then the sayd Swinnocks one hundred baggs were weighed<br />
off and sett by to be kept for him as aforesayd, and the other persons had their parts<br />
out of the remaynder of the sayd three hundred and odd baggs And saith hee this deponet<br />
was present at the delivery of all the ginger which was taken away out of the<br />
parcell of three hundred and odd baggs Interrogate and further saving his foregoeing deposition hee<br />
cannot answere./
To the 3the<br />
cannot answere./
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