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HCA 13/71 f.631r Annotate
First transcribed 24 February 2013  +
First transcriber Alex Jackson  +
Folio 631  +
Parent volume HCA 13/71  +
Side Recto  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 24/02/2013  +
Transcription bearing eight peeces of Ordnance togeatherbearing eight peeces of Ordnance togeather with her tackle apparrell<br /> furniture and provisions for the shipps Companie and Negroes were<br /> at the time of the seizure aforesaid really worth the summe of Two<br /> Thousand seaven hundred pounds sterling money of England, which<br /> hee knoweth for that a sixteenth part of the said shipp before shee was<br /> soe fitted and furnished to Sea upon the voiage aforesaid, of this deponents<br /> certaine knowledge was by Richard hull the former Master and part<br /> Owner thereof, sold unto the said Jeffereys and Colclough for one<br /> hundred pounds at the least, soe that the whole shipp in the condition shee<br /> then was did after that rate amount unto 1600: ''li'' or thereabouts and with<br /> the addition of all necessary tackle apparrell furniture provisions and<br /> all conveniences for such a voiage and service, this deponent in his Conscience<br /> and to the best of his Judgment fully convinced and assured of the valew<br /> of the premisses as hee hath predeposed the same, And as to the said<br /> shipp the ''Sarah'', hee cannot depose anything knowingly, as to the value<br /> thereof, nor touching the freight or mens wages in and aboard the same<br /> the voiage in question. And further or otherwise hee cannot depose To the 11th hee saith, That about two moneths after the<br /> seizure of the said shipp ''Sarah'', and about five or six weekes after the<br /> seizure of the said shipp ''Rappahannack'', the said Scroll and Companie<br /> redelivered unto the Companies of the said surprized shipps, and of two<br /> other English shipps, which they had alsoe thereabouts surprized, and taken<br /> the said shipps ''Sarah'', they having taken out of the same all the provisions<br /> of Victualls, saving two butts of beanes, two barrells of beefe, one hundred<br /> of Stockfish and about 5. or 600. weight of bread, togeather with<br /> some tunns of water, the Company then by them putt onboard the said<br /> shipp ''Sarah'' being about 70. persons, and being strictly ordered and<br /> enjoyned by the said seizors to goe directly for England, upon paine of<br /> forfeiture of the said shipp if they deviated or tooke any other Courses or voiages [XX]<br /> would have required about thirty moneths time, but this deponent and the said<br /> Arthur Perkins and the rest of the seized shipps Companies soe putt on board<br /> the said shipp ''Sarah'' finding that such provisions were altogether insufficient<br /> for such a Companie and voiage, and having but one entrie anchor, and one<br /> peece of Cable of about 50. or 60. fathom, and one suite of sailes very<br /> thin and insufficient for such a voiage, and being unwilling to expose their<br /> lives to such imminent and almost inevitable danger, they sailed from<br /> Cape de Lopes aforesaid to the Island of Saint Thomas, there they were<br /> necessitated to sell the said shipp the ''Sarah'' for Victualls to keepe them<br /> alive and to furnish another small Vessell, which they there procured to<br /> carry them to the Barbadoes, there to gett passage for England, and saith<br /> if they had not steered the Course and soul the said shipp to the use and<br /> intent aforesaid, they must in all probability have perished for want of<br /> Victualls. The premisses hee declareth and knoweth by sadd experience<br /> to bee true. And otherwise to this Article hee cannot deposetherwise to this Article hee cannot depose  +
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