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either have assaulted or beene assaulted b … either have assaulted or beene assaulted by the dutch for the Spanish<br />
doeth not usually tolerate any shipp or shipps of other nations trading to<br />
the West Indies And further hee cannot depose:.
To the eight Article hee saith, That every one of the said 53. or 54<br />
Negroes, which this deponent had on board his said shipp the ''Rapannack''<br />
at the time of the seizure aforesaid, and alsoe the hundred Negroes more which<br />
this deponent intended to have procured with the residue of the said outward<br />
Cargoe would have given and produced in Virginia being the<br />
place to which they were designed, thirty pounds sterling at the<br />
least; this deponent before hee sett forth upon the voiage aforesaid<br />
having here at London been offered 25 ''li'' sterling ready more for<br />
each Negroe hee should procure and deliver at Virginia aforesaid<br />
and to have the benefit of the moneys for the whole voiage, which<br />
would have procured rather more then lesse benefitt then that which<br />
is by him predeposed; And further saith, That hee this deponent<br />
verily beleeveth, That the 160 negroes or thereabouts in and on<br />
board the said shipp ''Sarah'' at the time of her said surprizall, they<br />
being designed for Viriginia or the Barbadoes, would have yeilded and<br />
produced to the Owners 30 ''li'' sterling per head, or the worth thereof<br />
in goods and Commodities of those Countreyes, And this deponent<br />
saith That about the eighteenth or 20th day of december last, this<br />
deponent after the seizure aforesaid being come to the Barbadoes, there<br />
was credibly informed by Mr Giles Thornbury Master of an English<br />
Vessell then newly come in there with Negroes from the parts<br />
of Guinney aforesaid, that hee had sold and disposed of them one<br />
with another for 27. hundred weight of sugar per head, each<br />
hundred being there valewed at five and twenty shillings, which is<br />
more then the summe of him predeposed, And further cannot depose<br />
saving that the Negroes persons, which hee this deponent had soe procured<br />
were all of them lusty young persons and soe hee intended to to<br />
have procured the remaining hundred of Negroes, soe that they<br />
would without any difficulty have produced the valew by him<br />
predeposed and upwards. And further hee cannot depose
To the 9th hee saith, hee knoweth nothing of the contents of this article<br />
further or otherwise then hee hath predeposed, for that hee this<br />
deponent was not at any time aboard the said shipp ''Sarah'', till such<br />
this as the said Scroll and Companie had taken all the goods<br />
and Negroes in question out of the same.
To the 10th Article hee saith, That the said shipp the ''Rappahannack''<br />
being a shipp of the burthen of 220. tunns or thereaboutsf the burthen of 220. tunns or thereabouts +
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