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howbeit hee saith the master was determine … howbeit hee saith the master was determined, and the English aboard<br />
the ''Pease'' brought her under commannd of the other shipp, being<br />
English, and soe shee was carried to the said fleete, and there their master<br />
being in the Admirall this deponent and the rest of the ''Peases'' company<br />
and the next day they were carried againse aboard their owne shipp<br />
and willed to take their clothes for they must goe ashore, which they being<br />
loath to doe, the English [?hasted] them and bidd them dispatch for they<br />
must presently ashore, and soe hee saith they were turned ashore and<br />
not suffered to eate aboard at their departure (as they desired) and saith<br />
that two or three of their companie were kept aboard to looke to the<br />
Negro's, and after two or three dayes they were alsoe sent ashore, and<br />
soe they were quite deprived of the said shipp and of the said Negro's<br />
being about two hundred and fiftie which were sold and<br />
disposed of by the English at the Barbada's, and the shipp sent<br />
by them for hispaniola, each of the said Negro's worth about<br />
fifteene hundred pounds of sugar, each pound there then worth<br />
betwixt two stivers and a halfe and three stivers, and the said shipp<br />
worth in his estimation six thousand gilders, with her tackle and<br />
furniture, and this seizure hee saith was about six monethes<br />
since, and thereby the foresaid owners were and are deprived and<br />
have lost the said shipp and negro's, and the shipps company<br />
put to shift for themselves, this deponent getting passage thence<br />
in an English shipp, and saith that before the said seizure this<br />
deponent had neither bin nor traded at nor received any goods from<br />
any of the English plantations, but shee was seized on the open<br />
sea under saile, as aforesaid, All which hee knoweth being<br />
aboard and seeing the premisses soe donne. And saith that besides<br />
the said Negro's there were in and seized aboard the said shipp about 300<br />
Eliphants teeth, worth 18 stivers per pound.
Repeated befoe doctor Godolphin.
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The last of August 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of [BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT] Swertz and}<br />
company owners of the shipp the ''Armes''}<br />
''of ffarnambuck'' of Amsterdam. seized}<br />
at the Barbada's/}
'''dt.'''
'''.j.'''
'''John Adamson''' native of Amsterdam<br />
but dwelling lately at Reciff in<br />
ffarnambuck aged 23 yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne as in the Acts of Court, saith<br />
and deposeth as followeth.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that hee well<br />
knoweth the shipp the ''Armes of ffarnambuck'' interrogated<br />
and hath soe donne for theise seaven monethes last or thereabouts<br />
and that the producent [BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT] Swertz and other dutch, subiects of the<br />
States of the United Netherlands were and are commonly accompted her<br />
owners, and that the said shipp is as hee beleeveth belonging to the<br />
port of Amsterdam and for such commonly accompted, And otherwise<br />
hee cannot depose, saving what followeth.
To cannot depose, saving what followeth.
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