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account of himselfe and his aid three part … account of himselfe and his aid three partners to be carried to the<br />
Canaries and such places in the West Indies as the said van hulten or<br />
his Agents should direct and appoint, to be bartered and sold awy for<br />
goods of those places to be brought to such places as the said van hulten<br />
or his factors or agents should order, all for the foresaid account. All which<br />
hee knoweth for that hee saw the said hulten but the said goods and sawe them<br />
packed and marked and [?part] of them paid for by him; and saw<br />
the other three [XXXX] their parts in payment thereof.
To the fifth article hee saith and deposeth that after and upon the said affreightment<br />
the said Phillip van hulten appointed and constituted this deponent (a<br />
hamburgder borne and then dwelling at Amsterdam with the said van hulten)<br />
Cape Mearchant of the said shipp, and entrusted the management of the<br />
voyage of and disposall of the goods unto him, and at this deponents proceeding<br />
the said van hulten gae him instructions in writing under his hand for<br />
the ordering and governing of the said voyage.
To the sixth article and schedule annexed now showed unto him hee<br />
saith and deposeth that the said schedule is a true copie of the said Instructions<br />
soe given unto him by the said van hulten for the said voyage, and the contents<br />
thereof were and are true and soe had and done as therein is contained,<br />
which hee knoweth well remembring the said Instructions, and having now<br />
read the said copie over.
To the seaventh article hee saith that after the lading of the said shipp with<br />
the said goods soe provided, shee set saile and departed therewith from<br />
Amsterdam and arived therewith at Santa Cruce in Teneriff in the Canaries<br />
where this deponent delivered out a parcell of deales and other of her<br />
outwards lading to Cornelius Suystens a factor there residing, a dutch man, subiect<br />
of the States of the United Netherlands and factor of the said van hulten borne at S'Hertogenbosch. and in<br />
barter and retourne thereof received there aboard the said shipp thirtie<br />
pipes of Canarie wines and thirtie ar[robes] of oile, and six s[?taes] (blacke)<br />
for the use and account of the said foure claimers the producents.
To the eighth article hee saith and deposeth that at the Canari{a}s aforesaid<br />
this deponent according to [?an] order by him receied beforehand from the said<br />
van hulten before his departure from Amsterdam received and tooke aboard<br />
the said shipp fourteene Spaniards upon hire and wages to be added to the<br />
said shipps company consisting before of six and thirtie persons, all dutch and<br />
Easterlings in amitie with this Commonwealth, in regard the Spaniards<br />
were better experienced in stowing of hides than the dutch men are<br />
and more free and [?for] to goe ashore and appeare in the parts of the said<br />
Werst Indias in the Spanish dominion than the dutch or any other nations<br />
are and soe more usefull for the furtherance of the said designe.
To the nineth article hee saith and deposeth that after receiving and taking<br />
in the said goods and Spaniards at Canaries the said John van lynen master<br />
of the said shipp and company departed therewith and with the rest of the<br />
said outwards lading towards the Spanish West Indias, and arived at Santa<br />
domingo therewith, this deponent going along therwith to Santa domingo, where<br />
with the assistance of John Mexia da herera (who being skilled in that<br />
trade went al[?one] from Amsterdam in the said shipp to assist this<br />
deponent) bartered sold and trucked away all the said<br />
outwards goods and those brought from the Canaries, and invested the same<br />
in hides, Cacoa, Tobacco, Brasill wood and Ginger for account of the<br />
said foure claimers the producents.
To the tenth hee saith that the said goods soe made and bought by the said<br />
herera and this deponent for the said account in retourne of their said goods<br />
there sold were nine thousand, seaven hundred and twenty bull hides,<br />
three thousand fourtie nine middle sized hides, one thousand one hundred<br />
twenty eight raw hides, in all thirteene thousand eight hundred ninetie<br />
andsand eight hundred ninetie<br />
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