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HCA 13/72 f.29r Annotate
First transcribed 16 February 2013  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 29  +
Parent volume HCA 13/72  +
Side Recto  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 16/02/2013  +
Transcription hee went master, and comming there to an ahee went master, and comming there to an anchor, the said shipp<br /> was the same day soone after such her comming to an anchor set upon and seized<br /> by the shipps the ''Mary'' of Amsterdam and the ''Unicorne'' of Middleborowe both<br /> under the command of John Scrole, a dutchman and subiect of the states of<br /> the United Netherlands dwelling in holland as hee was commonly said and<br /> acknowledged to be. And being soe seized this deponent and most of his<br /> company were carried prisoners aboard the said shipp the ''Mary'', where comming<br /> hee met with George Paris arlate commander of the said shipp the<br /> ''ffortune'' hee (being alsoe a prisoner) told and acquainted this deponent<br /> and company howe that his said shipp the ''ffortune'' with an hundred ninetie odd<br /> Negroe's in her had bin taken five dayes before by the said two dutch shipps<br /> and hee and company dispossessed of the said shipp ''ffortune'' and Negroes, and<br /> soe much the said Scroll and company alsoe confessed, namely that they<br /> had taken the said shipp ''ffortune'' and Negroes, and after such seizure<br /> of this deponent, hee sawe the said Scrolls men fetch, some of the ''ffortunes''<br /> Negroes out of her, (shee then lying neerely) and this deponent sawe a greate many<br /> lustie able Negroe's amongst them, and after they had soe taken out<br /> all the Negroe's and the shipps guns, rigging, sailes masts and<br /> appurtenances, they set the hull on fire, and destroyed the same of his<br /> deponents sight, And saith the said Negroes were alsoe said to be<br /> belonging to the said Silvester Colleton and company. And otherwise hee<br /> cannot depose, saving what followeth, and saving the said Scrole<br /> ordered the said Negroe's to be put aboard an English shipp which hee<br /> afterwards tooke from Captaine Gra[XXXX]s, and soe utterly deprived the<br /> owners of the said shipp ''ffortune'' and Negro's, of the same shipp and Negro's. To the fourth hee saith the said shipp ''Mary'' was at the time of the<br /> said seizure dutch built, and the ''Unicorne'' belowe was Portuguese built<br /> but above of dutch built, and they had both dutch colours,<br /> and were belonging and appertaining the ''Mary'' (as her<br /> company confessed) to Amsterdam. and the ''Unicorne'' to Middleborowe<br /> and were set out from holland, and their companies were<br /> most or many of them dutch, and all or the cheifest of their officers were<br /> dutch, And when they tooke this deponents shipp they had the Prince of<br /> Orange his flagge and Ensaigne out. And otherwise hee cannot depose, saving hee<br /> there heard one Vandergoose of the Netherlands said and named to bee<br /> one of their setters out. To the fifth hee cannot depose saving as aforesaid. To the sixth hee saith hee this deponent went shortly<br /> after to the Barbada's; where hee sawe Negroes (that came from the coast of Ginny) sold or bartered<br /> away some seaven and twenty hundred, others at eight and twenty hundred<br /> and others at 30 hundred pounds weight of sugar, and this hee saith was in<br /> or about the beginning of december last, and after the rate the<br /> said Negroes of the ''ffortune'' would have yeelded in his estimation one<br /> with the other, being for the most part very lustie able Negroes.<br /> And otherwise hee cannot depose. To the seaventh hee saith hee cannot estimate the valuw of the<br /> shipp ''ffortune'' and her tackle and furniture; not having bin aboard her till all her<br /> tackle, furniture, masts sailes and goods were laden out of her, which was on<br /> the same day before shee was fired as aforesaid Repeated before Collonel Cock. Thomas Thompson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]ock. Thomas Thompson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]  +
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