HCA 13/71 f.621v Annotate

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Transcription

1. great dammage and prejudice of the arlate Edward Bussett
2. which dammage in this deponent judgement and estimate did
3. amount to three two hundred pounds sterling at least And further to
4. this article hee cannot depose
5. To the 3 article hee saith that of his this deponents sight and knowledge
6. while the shipp Negro remayned at St Christophers the voyage
7. in question, shee having formerly sprunge a leake at Sea these
8. arlate Whitfeilds mate Hendick man, and on Albert Johnson arlate
9. assisted therein neere endeavouring to stopp and amend the sayd
10. leake as shee lay at St Christophers and the sayd Whitfeild being
11. bin a shoare in St Christophers and being farr overgone with drink
12. came aboard, and being come the sayd Whitfeild went downe into
13. the hold where his mate and the sayd Johnson were at XXorke and
14. had well neere finished their worke about stopping the sayd leake
15. and this deponent being upon deck and looking down into there
16. heard the sayd Whitfeild aparrell wrangle with the sayd Hendrick
17. man and Johnson and reproce them for meddleing with the Sheppeing
18. the sayd leaker and asked them who bidd them be so bold to meddle
19. with the shepping thereof without him, the sayd Whitfeild, and sayd
20. was not the way to gett their wages, but they should rather
21. have lett the sayd shipp alone till shee had bin filled with water
22. that shee might have bin haled ashoare as Brownes
23. shipp was, (meaning a shipp whereof one Browne was Master
24. which was haled a shoare being ready to sinke) and then XXXX
25. might perhapps ˹sayd hee recover˺ XXXX wages as they ˹(meaning Brownes
men)˺ have done, or words to
26. that effect And further hee cannot depose
27. To the 4th article hee saith that while the shipp arlate did lye neere
28. the Madras there happened an extraordinary storme by meanes
29. whereof the shipp was in great danger of perishing and hee
30. heard the arlate Captaine Locker speake then to the sayd Edwards
31. and Whitfeild to have a cage of the preservation of her according
32. to their seuerall places, but ˹what˺ answere they gave hee knoweth not
33. for that hee ˹this deponent˺ was goeing downe into his stewards roome not
34. thereby heard not their answere, but heard the Masters mate
35. and some others of the shipps Company sayd that the Sayd Whitfeild
36. and Edwards did both of them answere and replye to XX as is arlate
37. or to the like effect And further to this article hee cannot depose
38. To the article of the sayd allogation hee saith that hee well
39. knoweth that at New England there was a quantitie of Corne
40. vigt pease and wheate put aboard the shipp Negro to bee
41. thence carried to the Mederas and saith hee heard the arlate
42. Captaine Lockier publiquely upon the dock before this deponent and
43. seuerall others of the sayd shipps company order the sayd Whitfeild
44. as Carpenter to have a speciall care to make the nulk heads
45. of the sayd shipp firme and to soe that the sayd Corne were well
46. dammaged which the sayd Whitfeild sayd hee would doe and

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