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The eighth of Aprill 1659.
Claime of the … The eighth of Aprill 1659.
Claime of the said van hulten}<br />
and others in the ''Mary''}
Examined upon the foresaid allegation.
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'''John Moller''' of Amsterdam Marchant aged 28 yeares or [?thereabouts GUTTER]<br />
sworne and examined.
To hee first article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth hee well knoweth the<br />
producents Philip van hulten, hendrick Mathias, Christofer Cotsenburgh and<br />
Cornelius Mayeart and hath soe donne for many yeares last past namely the<br />
said van hulten about sixteene yeeres last past, hendrick Mathias and<br />
Cornelius Mayeart about eight or nine yeares and Christofer Cotsenburgh<br />
about fowre yeares last, during all which spaces hee hath knowne them to be<br />
living in and to be Merchants of Amsterdam, saving that about eight yeares<br />
since the said van hulten lived some space in Cadiz. And saith that<br />
about the moneth of Aprill 1657 the said Philip van hulten, hendrick Mathias<br />
Christofer Cotsenburgh and Cornelius Mayeart at Amsterdam had treatie<br />
and communication together about the hiring and freighting of a shipp to [XXX]<br />
with goods for the Canaries and thence for Santa domingo or other places of<br />
the Spanish West Indi[?a]s, and sending a cargo of goods out in her for their<br />
account, which hee knoweth being present severall times at such their [XXXX]<br />
in the house of the said van hulten (where this deponent then lived) and elsewhere<br />
in that citie, which Phillip van hulten was by the other three impowered to<br />
hire and freight a shipp for the said voyage and imployment and to provide and<br />
buy a cargo of goods to the valew of about tenn thousand pounds<br />
fflemish for their account to send along in the said shipp, and each and<br />
every of them agreed to have their equall fourth part or share thereof<br />
and of the charges and adventure of the said voyage, the whole management<br />
of which buying and providing the goods and freighting the shipp being<br />
left to the said van hulten. All which hee knoweth being privie to all<br />
the premisses.
To the second article hee saith that in or about the middle of May 1657<br />
Hollands stile, the said Phillip van hulten hired and tooke to freight of<br />
John van Linen arlate the shipp Saint Mary arlate whereof the said Linen was<br />
master for a voyage to be made with her from Amsterdam to the Canaries<br />
and thence to goe to such places and parts as the said van hulten and his<br />
agents or factors hould order and direct, and soe to returne to Amsterdam<br />
according to the said Charter partie, which hee knoweth being present<br />
at the said treatie and agreement about the said affreightment. And<br />
further deposeth not.
To the third article and schedule hee saith and deposeth that the said<br />
schedule now showed unto him, is a true copie of the said Charterpartie<br />
or contract of affreightment soe made betwixt the said Van hulten and<br />
van lynen, passed before Adrian van [?k]ock Notary at Amsterdam<br />
with whom the originall (according to the manner there) was left and<br />
saith the said originall was signed by the said van hulten and ban<br />
lynen the contractors at or about the said day of the date thereof,<br />
which hee knoweth being present and alsoe signing the same as a<br />
witnes together with Maynardt May[?merdson] van [?k]eeren a broker<br />
then alsoe present.
To the fourth article hee saith and deposeth that in performance of the<br />
premisses the said Philip van hulten on behalfe of himselfe and<br />
the said hendrick Mathias, Christofer Cotsenburgh and Cornelius<br />
Mayearts bought and provided a cargo of goods and merchandize[?s]<br />
consisting in lynnens, mercerie wares, silke stuffs, kersies and<br />
other commodities to the valew of about tenn thousand pounds<br />
fflemish, and after laded the same at Amsterdam aboard the said shipp[?s]<br />
accountard the said shipp[?s]<br />
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