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Transcription

The 16th day of July .1655:- [CENTRE HEADING]

George Swanley and Companie against certaine hogsheads}
of Tobaccoe brought from Virginia and against George}
Johnson for his interest in 34. hogsheads marked}
and numbred as in the schedule annexed Suckley}

Examined upon an Allegation
given in by the said Suckley in
the acts of Court upon the ninth
of this instant July 1655. and upon
the schedule thereunto annexed

Rp. EA.

John Lee of Ratcliffe in the parish of
Stepney and County of Middlesex Mariner
aged 26. yeares or thereabouts a Wittnes sworne
and examined saith as followeth videlicet:-/

To the said Allegation and schedule annexed seene and perused
by this examinate at the time of his examination hee saith and deposeth
That hee this deponent was and went Boateswaine of the shipp the
Providence allate the Voiage in question to Virginia, the allate
George Swanley being Captaine or Commannder thereof, And saith
That in or about the moneth of June the allate George Swanley
having been at Virginia, as was there generally reported, had given order
for the lading of certaine hogsheads of Tobaccoe aboard the said shipp
Providence to be transported in her for his proper accompt to London, and
that the said George Johnson being departed thence the allate david
Schellick being the Merchant and employer of the said shipp the
Providence did in the name and for the accompt of the said George
Johnson lade and putt aboard the said shipp two and twentie hogsheads
of tobaccoe marked GF being the first marke in the said schedule
expressed, and 8. hogsheads of Tobaccoe of the second marke therein alose
expressed being P4B, And the said Schellick coming afterwards to depart
this life at Virginia whilest the said shipp stayed there, his widdow at the
request (as this deponent there credibly heard) of the said Johnsons Attorney
at Virginia, sent aboard the said shipp to have a letter broken open which
was aboard being a letter from the said George Johnson directed for Eng;and
thereby to discover what goods the said Sellick had laden aboard for the
said Johnsons accompt (the said Johnson being then absent and gone for
New England) to the intent there might be no confusion in the
interrese of the said Sellick and Johnson, and thereupon this deponent
saw the opening of one of the said Johnsons letters wherein was inclosed
a Note of particulars of such Tobaccoe as the said Johnson had
aboard the said shipp, which note this deponent then and there observed to
bee marked as in the margent thereof was and is sett downe this
deponent upon upon the said thirtie hogsheads by him predeposed having seene and
observed, and according to his office of Boateswaine entred the goods and
markes predeposed into his Boateswaines booke, and saith that thereby
and by the Confession of George hohner servant to the said Sellick
(the