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said Captaine Clarke, that hee needed not … said Captaine Clarke, that hee needed not to feare them, for that they were<br />
dutch shipps belonging to the United Netherlands, and that hee knew<br />
their Owners as well as hee knew this owne, and knew where they<br />
dwelt, or words to that or the like effect. This examinate further deposeth<br />
and saith, That during his said imprisonment or detention aboard the said<br />
Scrolls shipp, hee this deponent heard it said by the said Scroll and by one<br />
Claes Pr[?uice] a dutch merchant then aboard the said Scrolls shipp, that<br />
they had in the said shipp or shipps brought from Amsterdam their respective<br />
outward Cargoes on purpose to trade and traffique with the same for<br />
Negroes in the Bite and other places upon the said Coast of Guinney<br />
and to carry and dispose of the same to and at Carthagena in the<br />
West Indies. And that hee examinate during the time aforesaid, did well<br />
observe that most part of the said shipps provisions were such as are<br />
usually aboard shipps victualled and sett forth from holland and the<br />
other United provinces, and that by the confession of severall of the said<br />
shipps Companie to this deponents precontest they had taken in all their provision of beefe, beanes<br />
, water and the like necessaries for their voiage and Negroes they<br />
were to procure, in holland aforesaid, And that this deponent heard the said<br />
Scroll confesse that the said shipp the ''Mary'' being then Admirall of the<br />
said two dutch shipps was built at Amsterdam for him to goe Master<br />
or Commander of her, and that hee had in that quality come out from<br />
Amsterdam upon his said voiage./
To the 7th Article hee saith, That the said John Scroll during the time<br />
of this deponents detention as aforesaid, did in the presence and hearing of<br />
this deponent and of his said precontest say and acknowledge, that hee<br />
was a dutchman borne or usually dwelling at or neere Monickendam<br />
in holland, and alsoe then and there this deponent understood and observed, That the<br />
boateswaine, Gunner, Chirurgion, Steersman and Carpenter of<br />
the said shipp wherein the said Scroll then was were all of them dutchmen and<br />
Subiects of the United Netherlands, and came in and aboard the said shipp<br />
from holland to Guiney, and soe much they severall times confessed<br />
and acknowledged to this deponent and his said precontest. And further<br />
hee cannot depose:/
To the eighth article hee saith, That the said fiftie Negroes or thereabouts<br />
aboard the said shipp ''Rappáhánnácke'' át the tyme of the said seizure<br />
were each of them one with another worth between t{w}enty and<br />
thirty pounds a peece to the best of this deponents Judgement this deponent some moneths<br />
after the said seizure coming to and arriving at the barbadoes, and there<br />
sold or disposed of there, were bartered for about 24 or 25. hundred weight of<br />
sugar per Negroe, which at the rate of five and twenty shillings for<br />
each hundred weight according to the common estimation thereof then<br />
and there, did amount to thirty pounds sterling and upwards; And for<br />
and after that rate hee verily beleeveth, That both the said 50<br />
Negroes actually laden and being aboard the said shipp Rappahannack<br />
being credibly informed, That Negroes then newly brought thither andhat Negroes then newly brought thither and +
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