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1. to sea, each of them with a Cargo of goods to trade at Guiney for the
2. Negroes, and particularly that one Vangergoes of Zeeland was a
3. principall Owner and imployer of the said shipp the Unicorne, and
4. was alsoe interessed in the other shipp the Mary, and that the said mr
5. Vandergoes and others the Own:ers of the said shipps the Mary and
6. Unicorne were dutchment and Subjects of the said States of the
7. United Netherlands Provinces, All which the premisses this depo:nent
8. saith hee hath understood and been very credibly informed of partly
9. before the seizure of the said shipp the Rappahannack, and that by
10. one Lucas Carrets Master of a shipp or flate belonging to Holland
11. then trading in those part, with whom this depo:nent mett at Sea about sixe
12. dayes before the seizure of the said shipp Rappahannack of them thide
13. depo:nent asking whether there were any men of warr upon that Coast, hee
14. answered noe, but that there were some dutch merchant shipps,
15. and that hee know where their Own:ers and Imployers lived, as well as
16. hee know where hid owne Own:ers lived, and that if hee were in
17. Amsterdam, hee could ˹presently˺ goe to thier or severall of their houses and
18. habitations in that place, and moreover that the said shipps were not
19. Spanish, nor did belong to Spaniarsd, and that therefore hee did not
20. feane them under any such notion, And partly for that the said
21. Commander John Scroll and the Gunner of the said shipp the
22. Unicorne (this depo:nent the said Seizure being brought on board her
23. and there continueing a prisoner for about 6. weekes after) did
24. severall times declare in the hearing of this depo:nent that the said shipps
25. were sett out, as aforesaid, by the said Vandergoes and others subjects
26. of the States of the said United Provinces, and saith that both the
27. said Scroll and one Claes or Nicholas Prince Merchant or
28. Supra Cargo of the said Shipp Marie did aboard the said shipp
29. Unicorn declare to this depo:nent that they had in and aboard the
30. said shipps a Cargaison for the procuring of two Thousand
31. ffive hundred Negroes to be transported to Carthagena in the
32. West Indies there to be disposed of and sold for the use of accompt
33. of ˹such˺ their dutch Propriet:ors And further saith, That soe long as
34. this depo:nent continued a prison:er in and aboard the said shipp Unicorne,
35. hee well observed that all or the most part of their shipps Victualls
36. an provisions consisted in grott, horse-beanes and other provisions
37. usually employed in shipps fitted a victualled from Holland and the
38. other united provinces, an that severall of the said shipps Companie
39. then confessed, that the provisions of beed, and sundry tunns of
40. water which they then had aboard the said shipps had beene by them
41. taken in, in the said united Netherlands, or words and expressions
42. to that or the like effect. Hee further saith, That hee this depo:nent

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