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marchandiseing and have both of them severall times employed this deponent XX GUTTER and about their marchandiseing affaires And fúrther he cannot depose To the second hee saith, That in or about the month of December 1655 last past, the said Jacob Sheafe did by himselfe or his Agents att or neere Boston in New England Lade or cause to be Laden and putt on board the shipp the ''Johns Adventure'' allate one barrill of beaver and other skinns marked as in the margent, and consigned the same to the said Henry Ashurst, the said barrill at the time of the said Lading containeing ninety eight beaver skinns, seaven otter skinns, and fower minx skinns, The premisses hee deposeth upon the subsequent grounds. videlicet for that hee this deponent shortly after the arrivall of the said shipp Johns Adventure at this port of London was employed and entrusted by the said Henry Ashurst to demand and receive of John Cutting Master of the said shipp the severall goods therein Laden by the said Jacob Sheafé and consigned by the said Henry Ashurst conformed to the invoyce and bill of Ladeing for the same which the said Sheafe by the said Master had sent to his said correspondent Ashurst who delivered the same to this deponent to the intent to demand and receive the said ˹goods˺ as aforesaid, as this deponent accordingly did, save onely the said barrill of beaver and other skinns marked as aforesaid. which this deponent misseing and being informed that the allate Robert Hubbart, had the said goods in his Custodie, this deponent with the said John Cutting went to the said Hubbarts, Lodgeing, and desired to see the said barrill and goods, where this deponent having seene the same, and dîligently compared the marke and number with the marke and number in the said invoyce and bill of Lading expressed and the number of ninetie seaven or ninety eight beaver skinns (the other skinns being disposed of by the said Hubbart, as hee then said) this deponent found and is clearely convinced and assured in Conscience, that the said barrill and skinns were and are the same which the said Jacob Sheafe Laded and consigned as aforesaid. And further cannot depose:/ To the third article and schedule annexed being seen and perused by this examinate at the time of his examination hee saith, That by means of his correspondence with and employment by the said Jacob Sheafe and others his correspondents here at London for three yeares Last and upwards, hee said this deponent is very well acquainted with the usuall character and manner of writeing of the said Jacob Sheafe, and thereby is fully convinced and assured that the said schedule being an Invoyce or factory of and for the said goods was and is all written in the proper hand writeing of the said Sheafe, and that the marke in the margent thereof marked was and is the usuall and constant marke wherewith the said Sheafe doeth marke or cause to be marked the goods and marchandises whereof hee alone is Proprietor and which hee rendeth to the said Ashurst and others his correspondents there at London. And further cannot depose:-/ To the 4:th article and schedule or bill of lading annexed and now seeing and perused by this examinate this deponent saith, that it is one and the same bill of Ladeing which this deponent received from the said Henry Ashurst whereby to demand the barrill and goods aforesaid, aged GUTTER the said Cutting hath severall times acknowledged the said bill of Lading by to be one of the bills of Lading by him signed and firmed {f}or the goods aforesaid. And further cannot depose:./ To the 7:th hee saith hee knoweth nothing thereof, saving this deponent hath severall times heard Thomas Jenner his precontest say and declare, that hee the said Jenner during said shipps course for New England towards London did heare the said Robert Hubbart propound the signing of a bill of ladeing by the said Master to the said Hubbart
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