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Colors put up, and under those Colors shee … Colors put up, and under those Colors shee fired a broad<br />
side at and upon the ''Starr'', and her Ketch which shee had in<br />
her Company fired alsoe a Gunne or two at the ''Starr'', which hee<br />
saith was done without any occasion given, and the said [?ffiring]<br />
hee saith did much Damage to the said ships Sailes Rigging<br />
and tackle, and her Companyes lives were in great Danger.<br />
and the said company of the ''Alexander'' threatning to sinke<br />
the ''Starr'' if the Master did not come on board the ''Alexander''<br />
the said Sprittiman was forced to leave his Ship, and<br />
goe onboard the ''Alexander'' which hee saith hee did, with four<br />
or five more of his Company. The promisses hee deposeth<br />
of Sight and Knoweledge being on board the said Ship ''Starre''<br />
the said time, this Deponent being then one of her Companion<br />
And further cannot depose./:
To the 3rd. hee saith that presently after the said Thomas<br />
Sprittiman was soe gone on board the ''Alexander'' the<br />
''Alexander''s boate and the ''Starr''s boate brought about sixteene<br />
or seaventeene men on board the ''Starr'', and Carried<br />
all the ''Starr''s Company on board the ''Alexander'', saving this<br />
Deponent and three others, and Saith that the ''Alexander''s men<br />
and the Ketches men which soe came on board the ''Starre''<br />
did breake open the ''Starr''s Hatches that night<br />
and drunke as much as they could insomuch that some<br />
of them were very much overtaken with Drinking the same.<br />
and in the night hee saith they filled a rundlet or two, and<br />
put the same into the Ketch in the nighttime, and the next<br />
morning hee saith that they filled all the Rundletts<br />
Jarrs and empty vessells which they could finde in the ''Starr''<br />
and in the ''Alexander'' and Ketch, and carryed the same onboard<br />
the ''Alexander'' and the Ketch, and saith that they tooke out<br />
alsoe two whole Pipes, and two Hogsheads of wine out of<br />
the said ships Hold, and carried the same into the ''Alexander''<br />
and Ketch, and they alsoe tooke away out of the said ship<br />
a Turky Cutlasse belonging to the Master a White Pot with a<br />
Great Silver Cover, Pannes, Spoones, Table Cloaths and Many<br />
of the Cloaths belonging to the seamen, and saith that in the<br />
said night they sailed the said ship back about<br />
sixteene or seaventeene Leages. and saith hee knoweth not what<br />
discourse passed betweene the said Sprittiman and the Captaine<br />
of the ''Alexander'' onboard the ''Alexander'', for that hee went<br />
not onboard the ''Alexander'', but saith that the said<br />
Sprittiman, and the Captaine of the ''Alexander'' and two men<br />
with him came onboard the ''Starr'' in the said morning in which the<br />
wine as aforesaid was soe sent and Carryed away, then they<br />
thend Carryed away, then they<br />
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