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and then and there tooke in severall hogsh … and then and there tooke in severall hogsheads Chests butts and barrells of<br />
tobaccoe amounting to a good quantitie and departed therewith towards Virginia<br />
whether shee was bound to lade more Tobaccoes and saith shee safely arrived<br />
at Virginia with the Tobaccoes laden aboard her at Bermudas about the<br />
beginning of the month of July and after her arrivall there videlicet in the<br />
Months of October November december and January 1655 there were laden<br />
aboard the sayd shipp lying in the River of Nansemum in Virginia severall<br />
other quanties of tobaccoe to a great quantitie all which tobaccoes as well<br />
those laden at Bermudas as those at Virginia were to be transported<br />
from Virginia to London the plan designed for their unladeing and discharge<br />
the premisses hee deposeth of his certayne knowledge being Masters<br />
cheife mate and aboard the sayd shipp and an eye wittnes of the premisses/
To the 2 article hee saith that a great quantitie of the sayd Tobaccoes soo laden<br />
at Bermudas and Virginia were laden and put aboard her for Account of<br />
the arlate Wright, White, Trott, Toulson, Butts Chandler and Waterman<br />
and consigned to be delivered to them or their Assignees at this Port of<br />
London as by divers bills of ladeing for part of the same which this deponent<br />
hath seene under the signature of the Master of the sayd shipp may appear<br />
And further to this article hee cannot depose./
To the 3 : 4th 5th and 6th articles hee saith the sayd shipp having taken<br />
in her sayd ladeing of Tobaccoe set sayle with the same from James<br />
River in Virginia bound for London in the month of January 1655 English<br />
style and about the latter end thereof and about fower days after such her<br />
setting sayle she being to the Eastward of Virginia about nynty<br />
leagues and in the latitude of about thirty seaven degrees and a halfe there<br />
happened an exceeding great storme which began upon or about the<br />
first day of ffebruary 1655 the winds then blowing west Norwest<br />
which storme continued fower dayes with great furie and violence in soe much<br />
that the sayd shipp by force thereof tooke in great Seas which raked her<br />
fore and afte and upon or about the second of the sayd month of ffebruary staved her<br />
longe boate and brake the sayd shipps Rudder head short off, and brake<br />
the iron worke of the sayd Rudder soo that the Rudder was in great<br />
danger every moment to bee wholly torne and carried away from the<br />
sayd shipp by the sayd storme, and also by violence of the sayd storme<br />
the sayd shipps mastes and some of her tymbers were broken downe and the<br />
water rann violently downe into the hold (the deck being seldome cleere<br />
of water) and into other parts of the sayd shipp and amongst the<br />
tobaccoes aforesayd notwith standing all possible diligence and care was<br />
used by the master and Company of the sayd shipp to keepe the same out<br />
and preserve the sayd shipp and her ladeing there being great danger of her<br />
sinkeing in the sea and of the utter losse of her, her ladeing, and her compa=<br />
nyes lives, and in order to the preservation of the sayd shipp, her lading<br />
and their owne lives hee saith the Master and Company of her did hange<br />
out men in the sayd storme in roapes over the sayd shipps sides who<br />
wrought with great hazard of their lives to fasten the sayd Rudder with<br />
roapes thereby to bring the sayd shipp to her steerage and did fasten it but<br />
the same was againe broken by the violence of the sayd storme and could not<br />
bee sayd storme and could not<br />
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