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The 16th day of July <u>.1655:-</ … The 16th day of July <u>.1655:-</u> [CENTRE HEADING]
George Swanley and Companie against certaine hogsheads}<br />
of Tobaccoe brought from Virginia and against George}<br />
Johnson for his interest in 34. hogsheads marked}<br />
and numbred as in the schedule annexed Suckley}
Examined upon an Allegation<br />
given in by the said Suckley in<br />
the acts of Court upon the ninth<br />
of this instant July <u>1655.</u> and upon<br />
the schedule thereunto annexed
'''Rp. EA.'''
'''John Lee''' of Ratcliffe in the parish of<br />
Stepney and County of Middlesex Mariner<br />
aged 26. yeares or thereabouts a Wittnes sworne<br />
and examined saith as followeth videlicet:-/
To the said Allegation and schedule annexed seene and perused<br />
by this examinate at the time of his examination hee saith and deposeth<br />
That hee this deponent was and went Boateswaine of the shipp the<br />
''Providence'' allate the Voiage in question to Virginia, the allate<br />
George Swanley being Captaine or Commannder thereof, And saith<br />
That in or about the moneth of June the allate George Swanley<br />
having been at Virginia, as was there generally reported, had given order<br />
for the lading of certaine hogsheads of Tobaccoe aboard the said shipp<br />
''Providence'' to be transported in her for his proper accompt to London, and<br />
that the said George Johnson being departed thence the allate david<br />
Schellick being the Merchant and employer of the said shipp the<br />
''Providence'' did in the name and for the accompt of the said George<br />
Johnson lade and putt aboard the said shipp two and twentie hogsheads<br />
of tobaccoe marked '''GF''' being the first marke in the said schedule<br />
expressed, and 8. hogsheads of Tobaccoe of the second marke therein alose<br />
expressed being '''P4B''', And the said Schellick coming afterwards to depart<br />
this life at Virginia whilest the said shipp stayed there, his widdow at the<br />
request (as this deponent there credibly heard) of the said Johnsons Attorney<br />
at Virginia, sent aboard the said shipp to have a letter broken open which<br />
was aboard being a letter from the said George Johnson directed for Eng;and<br />
thereby to discover what goods the said Sellick had laden aboard for the<br />
said Johnsons accompt (the said Johnson being then absent and gone for<br />
New England) to the intent there might be no confusion in the<br />
interrese of the said Sellick and Johnson, and thereupon this deponent<br />
saw the opening of one of the said Johnsons letters wherein was inclosed<br />
a Note of particulars of such Tobaccoe as the said Johnson had<br />
aboard the said shipp, which note this deponent then and there observed to<br />
bee marked as in the margent thereof was and is sett downe this<br />
deponent upon upon the said thirtie hogsheads by him predeposed having seene and<br />
observed, and according to his office of Boateswaine entred the goods and<br />
markes predeposed into his Boateswaines booke, and saith that thereby<br />
and by the Confession of George hohner servant to the said Sellick<br />
(thervant to the said Sellick<br />
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