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each Negroe the value of each hundred of s … each Negroe the value of each hundred of sugar being then and<br />
there ordinarily estimated at five and twenty shillings English<br />
money, which in the whole amounted to above thirty pounds<br />
sterling money for each Negroe, and soe much and after<br />
rate this deponent is fully assured that the said hundred fifty and<br />
eight Negroes laden and seized in the said shipp ''Sarah'' as<br />
aforesaid, might and would really and readily have yielded<br />
per head, if the same had not beene so interrcepted and seized by<br />
the said Scroll and Companie, but had come to, arrived and beene<br />
disposed of to the best advantage at the Barbadoes aforesaid; And<br />
upon the grounds predeposed, this deponent is alsoe fully convinced and<br />
assured of the like summe or value for the Negroes seized in the said<br />
shipp ''Rappahanacke''. And further cannot depose
To the 9th hee saith, That as the time of the suprizall of the said<br />
shipp ''Sarah'' there alsoe was and remained on board her a<br />
great quantity of Elephants teeth to the valew as hee verily<br />
beleeveth of five hundred pounds sterling at the least, which<br />
belonged to the said Lewellin, as being the proceed gained and<br />
procured with part of his said outwards Cargoe, And saith<br />
the Master and Companie of the said shipp ''Sarah'', at the time<br />
of the seizure aforesaid had Cloathes, sea instruments, goods amd<br />
other necessaries to them belonging, amounting in all as this deponent<br />
in conscience verily beleeveth, to the summe or value of one<br />
Thousand pounds sterling, And alsoe saith, that fower chests of<br />
Copper barrs and one tunn of iron, and two barrells of bowdges<br />
remaining undisposed of at the time of the said seizure<br />
and belonging to the said Lewellin were really worth<br />
Two hundred pounds sterling money, all which the premisses<br />
were at the time of the seizure aforesaid surprized and taken<br />
away by the said Scroll and Companie, and the said Master and<br />
Companie of the ''Sarah'', and the said Lewellin were thereby utterly<br />
dispoyled and deprived thereof. Which the premisses here this<br />
deponent well knoweth by sadd and suffering experience,<br />
And further hee cannot depose
To the 10th article hee saith that hee doeth in Conscience according<br />
to the best of his judgement verily beleeveth the said shipp the<br />
''Sarah'' at the time of the seizure aforesaid to have beene really<br />
worth eight hundred pounds sterling. (her tackle apparrell and<br />
furniture being therein comprised) shee being a shipp of the burthen<br />
of one hundred and twenty tunns or thereabouts. carrying six<br />
peeres of Ordanance, and having performed but three voiages before this in question since<br />
her originall building and being every way well accomodated for<br />
such a voiage, And saith the mens wages for the said voiages<br />
(theages for the said voiages<br />
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