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1. downe to Gravesend which was before the Peter and John was hyred to foe
2. the sayd voyage for Virginia./
3. To the 7th and 8th articles hee saith that the sayd Ewers his shipp and the Peter
4. and John and the Recovery whereof John Yonge was Master set sayle in Company
5. out of the downes and being all to the Westwards of ffalmouth and the wind
6. being not then fayre to proceede toward Virginia the sayd Ewers and his shipp and
7. the Peter and John in company with him put into ffalmouth on the one and twentyth GUTTER
8. of January XXX. 1654 where they both stayed till the 27th of the same moneth
9. and saith the Recovery that night kept sea and went XX came not at all into GUTTER
10. ffalmouth, and that the sayd Ewers shipp and the Peter and John continued
11. at ffalmouth from the sayd 21th to the seaven and twentith daye of the same
12. moneth and then they both sett forth to Sea againe in Company and
13. continuedd in Company till the eighth sday of ffebruary next following
14. and then lost one an other at Sea by meanes of fowle weather in the latitude GUTTER
15. of forty suxe degrees, and betweene the Lands end of England, and the Islands of Azores GUTTER
16. And saith that the Peter and John arrived in James River in Virginia
17. on the two and twentieth day of Aprill one thousand sixe hundred fifty
18. five and the sayd Ewers with his shipp arrived there about a day or soe GUTTER
19. after to the best of his this deponents now rem{embran}ce, and further
20. saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose/
21. To the 9th hee cannot depose/
22. To the 10th hee cannot depose/
23. To the 11th hee saith hee cannot depose not knowing what ˹quantitie of˺ the arlate GUTTER
24. Samuel Mathewes shipped aboard other shipps for Accompte of the arlate
25. William Watts before the arrivall of the Peter and John and the sayd
26. Ewers his shipp at James River in Virginia./
27. To the 12th hee saith that hee hath bin a trader for Tobaccoes to Virginia
28. for these fowerteene or fifteene yeares last past and hath in that tyme made
29. about eleaven or more voyages thither and thereby knoweth that it is the use
30. and Constant practize of such as have Cropps of Tobaccoe in Virginia
31. to dispose of them and send them for England by such shipps as are present GUTTER
32. in Virginia, about the middle, or at the farthest at the latter end of March
33. next after the yeare wherein they growe, unlesse they bee very certaine GUTTER
34. that some shipp us very shortly after to come and will come thither
35. wherein they have tonnage taken, or else to barter the same away XXXX GUTTER
36. as will take it and give the like quantitie of tobaccoe for it the next yeare
37. or to send it to New England or some other place in regard Tobaccoe is XX GUTTER
38. perishing Commoditie in Virginia and will not keepe there without greate GUTTER
39. dammage from one harvest to an other, And further hee cannot depose
40. To the 13th hee saith hee sawe the shipps the Seaven Sisters and the John and
41. Katherine lying in James River in Virginia with much of their homeward
42. ladeing on board them when this deponent came XXX thither in the Peter
43. and John, XXXX before but how longe they had bin there before or when they
44. were cleered at Gravesed and sett sayle from thence or when they
45. arrived in Virginia hee knoweth or whether they returned thence without
46. dead freight hee knoweth not, And saith hee beleeveth if the sayd Ewers
47. had sett out from Gravesend soe soone as the sayd other shipps arlate did
48. and arrived at Virginia soe soone as they did hee beleeveth might have
49. returned thence for England without any dead freight And further saving his GUTTER
50. foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose./>
51. <margin value="Bottom right, under main body of text, as lead tonext page">To</margin>XXX

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