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To the 10th hee saith that the Shipp the ' … To the 10th hee saith that the Shipp the ''Sarah'' at the tyme of her<br />
seizure was in this deponents judgment well worth seaven hundred<br />
pounds sterling And the freight of her for the voyage wherein shee was<br />
taken would in this deponents Judgment have amounted to sixe hundred<br />
pounds sterling or thereabouts And her mens wages for the sayd voyage<br />
would (in this deponents Judgement) have amounted to seaven hundred<br />
pounds sterling at the least And as touching the value of the ''Rapahannack''<br />
for that hee was a prisoner at her seizure and was not afterwards on board<br />
her hee cannot depose thereto And further was not afterwards on board<br />
her hee cannot depose thereto And further hee cannot depose/
To the 11th hee saith that the sayd Scroll after hee had soe seized the<br />
Shipps the ''Rapahannacke'' and ''Sarah'' and their ladeing did alsoe seize two other<br />
English shipps and their ladeings and then at Cape Lopez the sayd Scroll<br />
and Company did give the Shipp ''Sarah'' to this deponent and mr Thomas<br />
Thompson who was one of the Owners of her to carrie the companyes of all the<br />
fower English shipps soe taken for England, but tooke out first, all her<br />
provisions of virtualls, and most of her cables and Anchors and other tackle which<br />
was of worth, and gave them only a few dutch beanes and two barells of beefe<br />
and thirty stock fish and about five hundred weight of bread which was very badd<br />
and old, and soe turned them loose at Cape Lopez to shift for them selves,<br />
of all necessaries for soe long a passage and soe great a Company as all those<br />
fower conisgned companyes were, they put in at the Island of Saint Thomas<br />
about threescore leagues from Cape Lopez, and there the sayd Thompson<br />
trucked a way the Shipp ''Sarah'' for an other smaller shipp and<br />
for provisions to store them for their Journey, and some small quantitie of<br />
money and goods, wherewith they made a shifte to gett to the Barbadoes where<br />
this deponent and others gott passage for England, which if they had not done<br />
this deponent saith they might have perished for want of victualls (that [?be]<br />
given them by the dutch being little and very badd) And further hee<br />
cannot depose./
To the 12th hee saith hee cannot depose otherwise then that hee beleeveth<br />
the Owner of the ''Rapahannack'' and her Master and Mariners were very<br />
much damnified by meanes of the seizure.
To the 13th hee saith that the arlate Beane and Company by<br />
reason of the losse of the shipp the ''Sarah'' and her freight have (in<br />
this deponents judgment and estimate) suffered losse and dammage to<br />
the summe of thirteene hundred pounds sterling at the least And the sayd<br />
LLewellin and company by losse of the Negroes Elephants teeth and<br />
other goods on board her for his Accompt have in this deponents Judgment<br />
and estimate suffered eight thousand pounds sterling losse and dammage And<br />
And saith this deponent being Master and Supracargo for his part<br />
suffered losse and dammage in the losse of her eight Negroes Elephants teeth and other<br />
goods and [?allsoe] bookes cloathes and Instruments the summe of fowerteene hundred<br />
pounds sterling And that the Company of the sayd shipp by losse of their<br />
Wages cloathes books sea Instruments and private Adventures were in this<br />
deponents Judgment and estimate damnified the summe of twelve hundred<br />
pounds of like money And further hee cannot depose.
Arthur Perkins [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]pose.
Arthur Perkins [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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