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with her tackle apparell and furniture and … with her tackle apparell and furniture and appurtenance cost and stood them<br />
in immediately before this her voyage, (which was her first voyage) fourtie six<br />
thousand and one hundred gilders, of holland money, which her finishing and<br />
fitting for the said first voyage was in or about June 1657, which hee knoweth<br />
being specially imployed in and about buying and paying for the said vessell, whereof<br />
hee was to goe master, and was constituted and put master by the said hector<br />
Petersson and the rest of the said owners, at whose charge shee was fitted and<br />
furnished.
To the fifth article hee saith and deposeth that in May 1657 hee this deponent<br />
master of the said shipp by order and with consent of the said hector Petersson<br />
Gilbert Cornelisson Schouten, Nicholas Bleauhelm, William Momma, Martin<br />
ffransen vander Schildar and company owners of the said shipp, did let her<br />
to freight to Philip van hulten Merchant of Amsterdam<br />
for a voyage to be made with her from Amsterdam to the Canaries, thence to<br />
the West Indies and soe back to Amsterdam, in which voyage this deponent<br />
was to goe master of her, and there was a Charter partie made betweenbe<br />
them of and upon the affreightment./.
To the sixth hee saith that upon the said affreightment the said shipp set saile<br />
and departed from the Texel on or about the nineteenth of June 1657 new<br />
stile upon the said voyage and imployment, and that upon her retourning<br />
homewards, was in the course of her proceeding met with surprized<br />
and taken by Captaine Story in the ''ffairfax frigot'' and carried to Tolon<br />
where this deponent lately left her, and where (as hee beleeveth) shee is<br />
at this present.
To the seaventh article hee saith and deposeth That the said hector Petersson<br />
Gilbert Cornelison Schoten, Nicholas Bleauhelm, William Momma,<br />
and Marin ffransen Vander Sc[XXXXn] and company were and are all natives<br />
and subiects of the said States of the Netherlands and of the State of Hamborow<br />
and live and keep houses and families there and have soe donne severall<br />
yeeres, and [?some] of them have bin owners of shipps whereof hee hath bin master<br />
above tenn yeeres last, and for and as such as aforesaid they have bin and are<br />
commonly accounted and reputed.
To the eighth article hee saith that noe Spaniard or other in hostilitie against<br />
this Commonwealth had or hath any part or share in the said shipp the ''Saint Mary'' or her tackle apparell or furniture, but the same were and are wholely<br />
belonging to the said claimers and company in this cause subiects of the States<br />
of holland and of hamborow as aforesaid.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee sait hee was borne in the State of hamborow and Dwelt there all his time<br />
(saving when he was at sea) till about two yeares and a halfe since that hee came to dwell<br />
in Amsterdam, where hee hath inhabited ever since with his wife and family<br />
(saving when hee hath bin at sea) And saith hee was aboard the said shipp when<br />
shee was seized, and hath belonged to and bin master of her ever since her<br />
first launching from the Stocks, and saith hee hath one eighth part in the said<br />
shipp and hath soe had from the beginning, and hath lately inderstood that<br />
Christofer [?we[XXrson] and Herome Ryndorp of hamBorow who undertooke to be<br />
owners of five sixtiefourth parts of the said shipp, are now fallen off and<br />
left the said parts upon him this deponent, and saith hee is noe kinsman or<br />
servant to any of the said claimers.
To the second hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition where hee hath<br />
fully satisfied the same, and saith the said Mar[?k]ler or Broaker made this<br />
deponent a bill of sale of the said shipp, and the said other owners entred their<br />
namesther owners entred their<br />
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