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and seaven hides. Alsoe one thousand three … and seaven hides. Alsoe one thousand three hundred foure [?score] and foure<br />
Charges of Cacoa, each charge of seaventie five pounds weight, [?two GUTTER]<br />
thousand two hundred and twenty five Manaco's of tobacco, weighing<br />
foure thousand three hundred and three score pounds of tobacco, and<br />
seaven hundred threescore and twelve peeces of Brazil wood [?weight GUTTER]<br />
threescore and nineteene kintalls and a halfe, and alsoe eighteene<br />
kintalls and thirteene pounds of ginger, All which said hides [?Cacoa GUTTER]<br />
tobacco, brazill wood and ginger were really and truely bought and<br />
paid for (as hee saith) with the goods and for the use and account of<br />
the said foure producents, the premisses hee deposeth being a speciall<br />
agent therein, and for the particulars numbers, quantities and<br />
weight, hee knoweth them, for that hee tooke account thereof<br />
in writing, and th[?at] Admirall Stokes seizing his papers, permitted<br />
him to to take copi[?a]s of his accounts and particulars, which hee hath now<br />
with him, and is readie to show them to this Court.
To the eleaventh article hee saith an deposeth that after such buying<br />
and providing by this deponent (with the said assistance)<br />
the said hides, cacoa, tobacco, Brazill wood and Ginger, hee this<br />
deponent at Santa domingo aforesaid marked a small part of the said hides<br />
with his owne hand with the mark in the margent (being the usuall<br />
marke and having the two first letters of the names of the said Phillip<br />
van hulten) and all the rest of the said hides hee caused to be
'''PH''' [MARKE, LH MARGIN]
marked in his presence and saw them marked with the same<br />
marke, and [?on] Santa domingo aforesaid this deponent laded and<br />
caused all the said hides, Cacoa, Brazill wood Tobacco and<br />
Ginger aboard the said shipp the ''Saint Mary'' for the sole use and<br />
account of the said producents the claimers, and saw the<br />
lading there of them all aboard the said shipp.
To the twelveth article hee saith and deposeth that after and upon<br />
such lading of the said goods aboard the said shipp, the said John<br />
van lynen at Santa domingo signed and subscribed a bill of lading<br />
for the said thirteene thousand Eight hundred Ninety and [XXX GUTTER<br />
hides marked as aforesaid for the Account of the said Phillip van<br />
hult[?o]n and Company Claimers aforesaid, and alsoe one bill of<br />
Lading for one Thousand three hundred ffourescore and foure<br />
Charges of Cacoa. each Charge of threescore and ffifteene [XXX GUTTER]<br />
for the Account and Adventure of Phillip Van hulton and Company<br />
merchants of Amsterdam Claimers in this Cause And alsoe one<br />
other bill of Lading for two thousand two hundred twenty and<br />
five M[XXXX]oes of Tobacco Weighing 4360 l[X] weight, [XX GUTTER]<br />
for the account and Adventure of the said Phillip Van hulton<br />
and Company aforesaid. Claimers in this Cause. And alsoe one<br />
other Bill of Lading for seaven hundred threescoe and twelve<br />
peeces of Brazill wood weighing together seaventy Nine Quintalls<br />
and a halfe, And Eighteene Quintalls, and thirteene pounds of<br />
Ginger, all for the Account of the said Phillip van hulten and<br />
Company aforesaid, Marchants of Amsterdam, Claimers in this<br />
Cause, Which hee knoweth for that hee this Deponent [XXX] well<br />
knew the Particularities aforesaid wrote or filled up the [XXXXXXX XX] said [XXX] Bills of Lading<br />
and sawe the said John Van Leynen subscribe them.
To the 13.th hee saith that before the Departure of the said<br />
ship from Santa Domingo, the said Bills were there all signed [?by GUTTER]<br />
the said John Van Leynen, and the said Bills, and the Contents<br />
(thereoflls, and the Contents<br />
(thereof +
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