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downe to Gravesend which was before the Pe … downe to Gravesend which was before the Peter and John was hyred to goe<br />
the sayd voyage for Virginia./
To the 7th and 8th articles hee saith that the sayd Ewers his shipp and the ''Peter''<br />
''and John'' and the ''Recovery'' whereof John Yonge was Master set sayle in Company<br />
out of the downes and being all to the Westwards of ffalmouth and the wind<br />
being not then fayre to proceede toward Virginia the sayd Ewers and his shipp and<br />
the ''Peter and John'' in company with him put into ffalmouth on the one and twentyth<br />
of January 1654<br />
and saith the ''Recovery'' that night kept sea and came not at all into<br />
ffalmouth, and that the sayd Ewers shipp and the ''Peter and John'' continued<br />
at ffalmouth from the sayd 21th to the seaven and twentith daye of the same<br />
moneth and then they both sett forth to Sea againe in Company and<br />
continuedd in Company till the eighth day of ffebruary next following<br />
and then lost one an other at Sea by meanes of fowle weather in the latitude<br />
of forty sixe, betweene the Lands end of England, and the Islands of Azores<br />
And saith that the ''Peter and John'' arrived in James River in Virginia<br />
on the two and twentieth day of Aprill one thousand sixe hundred fifty<br />
five and the sayd Ewers with his shipp arrived there about a day or two<br />
after to the best of his this deponents now rem{embran}ce, and further<br />
saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose/
To the 9th hee cannot depose/
To the 10th hee cannot depose/
To the 11th hee saith hee cannot depose not knowing what quantitie of tobaccoes the arlate<br />
Samuel Mathews shipped aboard other shipps for Accompte of the arlate<br />
William Watts before the arrivall of the ''Peter and John'' and the sayd<br />
Ewers his shipp at James River in Virginia./
To the 12th hee saith that hee hath bin a trader for Tobaccoes to Virginia<br />
for these fowerteene or fifteene yeares last past and hath in that tyme made<br />
about eleaven or more voyages thither and thereby knoweth that it is the use<br />
and Constant practize of such as have Cropps of Tobaccoe in Virginia<br />
to dispose of them and send them for England by such shipps as are present<br />
in Virginia, about the middle, or at the farthest at the latter end of March<br />
next after the yeare wherein they growe, unlesse they bee very certaine<br />
that some shipp is very shortly after to come and will come thither<br />
wherein they have tonnage taken, or else to barter the same away to [?hee]<br />
as will take it and give the like quantitie of tobaccoe for it the next yeare<br />
or to send it to New England or some other place in regard Tobaccoe is [?a]<br />
perishing Commoditie in Virginia and will not keepe there without [?greate]<br />
dammage from one harvest to an other, And further hee cannot depose
To the 13th hee saith hee sawe the shipps the ''Seaven Sisters'' and the ''John and''<br />
''Katherine'' lying in James River in Virginia with much of their homeward<br />
ladeing on board them when this deponent came thither in the ''Peter''<br />
''and John'', but how longe they had bin there before or when they<br />
were cleered at Gravesed and sett sayle from thence or when they<br />
arrived in Virginia hee knoweth or whether they returned thence without<br />
dead freight hee knoweth not, And saith hee beleeveth if the sayd Ewers<br />
had sett out from Gravesend soe soone as the sayd other shipps arlate did<br />
and arrived at Virginia soe soone as they did hee beleeveth might have<br />
returned thence for England without any dead freight And further saving his<br />
foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose./
Toegoeing deposition hee cannot depose./
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