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his contest Peter du Bois and the rest of … his contest Peter du Bois and the rest of their company, who sadly<br />
beheld the sailing away of their said shipp, while themselves<br />
remained soe exposed; and after they had remained about twenty<br />
dayes there ashore, it pleased God that an English shipp called<br />
the ''Happie ffortune'', (one Popperell master) came and<br />
arived there, and saith the said master of the ''Brotherhood'' and company<br />
(whereof this deponent was one as aforesaid) got passage in her to<br />
the Barbada's.
To the fifth article hee saith that the said ninetie foure Negroes at<br />
the time of the said surprizall were very lustyie and healthfull,<br />
and each and every of them one with another would have given<br />
and yealded at the Barbada's two thousand three hundred pounds<br />
weight of good Barbada's sugar, for so much hee saith the<br />
like or worse Negro's carried thither in the said Popperills shipp<br />
yealded one with another, whereas the said shipp the ''Brotherhood''<br />
(had she not bin so surprized) might have and would in all<br />
probabilitie have arrived there sooner than Popperells shipp and<br />
to a better market, and saith that every pound weight of<br />
the said sugar was then worth six pence sterling, and at that<br />
rate it there usually went and was rated at the said time of<br />
Popperrills ship comming thither, namely about the beginning of<br />
Aprill last past.
To the sixth article he saith and deposeth that at the time of the<br />
said seizure that were on board the said shipp the ''Brotherhood'',<br />
belonging to her master and company a quantitie of Gold, Elephants<br />
teeth, sea Instruments, clothes materialls and necessaries to the valew<br />
of five hundred pounds sterling or thereabouts, all which they lost<br />
and were deprived of by the said seizure, the same being alsoe<br />
arried away by the said takers, which hee knoweth for the reason<br />
aforesaid being in the shipp at the time of the said seizure.
To the seventh hee saith that the said shipp ''Brotherhood'' at the<br />
time of the said surprizall was of the burthen of sixtie tonnes<br />
or thereabouts, well fitted and furnished, and well worth the<br />
summe of three hundred and fiftie pounds sterling, and soe worth<br />
the same would have yealded upon sale, with which hee knoweth for that<br />
hee hath bin a seaman theise twenty yeares or thereabouts, and well<br />
acquainted with shipping and the valew of shipps.
To the last hee saith that the said Peter and Abraham Cullier and company<br />
by the said seizure have sustained losse and dammage to the summe<br />
or valew of three thousand five hundred pounds sterling in his<br />
this deponents estimation, by losse of their shipp, Negro's Elephants<br />
teeth and proffits of the voyage. And otherwise hee cannot<br />
depose.
Repeated before doctor Godolphin.
Timothy Moyser [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]phin.
Timothy Moyser [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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