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To the fifth Interrogatory he answereth ne … To the fifth Interrogatory he answereth negatively.
To the sixth Interrogatory he cannot answeare Saving that<br />
the said Philipps hath written divers Letters to<br />
Billiard interrate about the time the shippw as preparing<br />
for her voyage, which letters came sealed up to this<br />
Rendent, and soe they were sent to the sayd<br />
Billiard, and that the said Philipps did alsoe<br />
about the same time send divers Letters unto this<br />
Rendent thereby desiring him this Rendent to write unto<br />
the said Billiard to dispatch the shipp, and alsoe to<br />
satisffye whatsoever moneys the sayd Billiard should<br />
drawe upon him this Rendent as Agent for the said<br />
Phillips for the said shipps account.
To the seaventh Interrogatory he answereth that he never<br />
saw the bill of sale concerning the said shipp, but at this<br />
present he hath with him the Release made by Zephaniah Parker<br />
and Company of the said shipp unto the producent who<br />
bought the said shipp of them, And that the passe<br />
and certificate by him predeposed of were true and<br />
reall of this Rendents certaine knowledge who obtayned<br />
them not for this but a former voyage to the same Islands and that<br />
Major generall Desborough was one that subscribed<br />
unto the said passe, but he remembreth not the date<br />
therof, And further he cannot answeare.
Repeated before doctor Godolphin.
Thom fessell [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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6th of September 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
Touching the shipp called the ''ffortune''}<br />
of Amsterdam (whereof Peter Sibrands}<br />
is Master) and her lading}<br />
ffrancklin}
Upon Interrogatoryes ministred<br />
in this behalfe by or on the<br />
part of John Claeson Longdike<br />
and Company.
'''1)'''
'''Jacob Peterson''' Native and Resident of the<br />
Citty of Euchusen in North=holland under<br />
the Dominion of the States of the United<br />
Provinces aged about twenty and fower yeares<br />
a wittnes received and sworne and examined<br />
upon the said Interrogatoryes answereth thereunto<br />
as followeth
To the first Interrogatory he answereth and deposeth that hee<br />
very well knoweth the interrate shipp the ''ffortune'', he<br />
going out in her (in this voyage wherein she was taken)<br />
a common man and being afterwads and at the time of<br />
his seizure Bozen of her, That she belonged at the<br />
time she went upon this voyage unto the Port of Amster=<br />
=dam, where John Claeson Longdike the sole owner<br />
of her (for to the contrary therod he never heard) [?dwellt]<br />
and he never heard) [?dwellt]<br />
and +
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