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1. Said Master and Offic:ers wages therein comprised would in the whole
2. have amounted to six hundred pounds and upwards, this depo:nent having
3. so calculated and found the same to so bee for the said Master and three
4. other Offic:ers and fower erteene Marin:ers wages for the whole voiage intended
5. by Gods blessing to have been accomplished in the space of fifteen
6. moneths or thereabouts. And furhter to this article hee saith hee cannot
7. depose:-

8. To the 11:th Article of the said Allogation hee saith, That about ten weekes
9. after the seizure of the said shipp Sarah, the said Scroll and Company
10. having likewise seized three other English shipps trading in these
11. parts, that is to say the Vapahauuark, the Lion and Providence, and the
12. fortune, did deliver the said shipp Sarah unto the Arthur Perkins
13. formerly Master of her, and to one Mr: Thompson, a ffactor or Agent
14. then aboard her, and that so the intent to transport the Masters and Companie
15. of the said seuerall shipps to England, the said seiz:ure having before
16. such her delivery taken out of her all the said Negroes, togeather w:ith
17. all her remaining outwards Cargo and provisions and elephants teeth
18. aforesaid, and ˹having˺ left them at Cape Lopes aforesaid having onely
19. then aboard the said shipp about five hundred weight of bread, about
20. one hundred of Swordfish, two butts of beanes, three small barrells of
21. beef, and a quantity of water for the sustenance of about sixtie persons
22. upon voiage which in all probability could not require lesse then
23. three moneths time, which was exceeding slender and intogeather insuffi
24. cient and for the most part very badd provisions, and the shipp very ill
25. accomodated, having onely one old saite of sailes. one whole anchor
26. and another that was maimed, and onely one peere of of a Cable, so that the
27. said Masters and men inbarqued in the said shipp were necessitated
28. for preservation of their lives to putt into St. Thomas Island, where
29. they exchanged the said shipp Sarah for another small shipp and
30. necessary provisions to bring them to the Barbadoes, thence to take
31. shipping for England, which if they had not done, they must in all
32. probability have perished by famine. The premisses hee well knoweth
33. to bee true, and that be men sad and sorrowful experience. And
34. further hee cannot depose:-

35. To the 12:th hee saith, hee hath noe knowledge of the Contents of this
36. Article/:-

37. To the 13:th hee saith, hee verily beleeveth and is in Conscience convinced soe
38. to doe; That the Own:ers of the said shipp Sarah, by the said seizure
39. and Losse of her, and of her tackle apparrell and furniture, and
40. freight due for the voiage aforesaid have suffered losse and dammage to
41. the valew of two thousand pounds sterling, and alsoe verily beleeveth
42. That according to the Computation aforesaid, the said Robert Lewellin, and
43. by the Losse of the said Negroes, elephants teeth, remainder if the
44. outward Cargoe and losse of the improvement of the proceed thereof
45. hath cleerely lost at the least the summe of six thousand pounds of
46. Lawfull moneys of England, and that the said Master and

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