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to sea, each of them with a Cargo of goods to trade at Guiney for the
Negroes, and particularly that one Vangergoes of Zeeland was a
principall Owner and imployer of the said shipp the Unicorne, and
was alsoe interessed in the other shipp the Mary, and that the said mr
Vandergoes and others the Owners of the said shipps the Mary and
Unicorne were dutchmen and Subjects of the said States of the
United Netherlands Provinces, All which the premisses this deponent
saith hee hath understood and been very credibly informed of partly
before the seizure of the said shipp the Rappahannack, and that by
one Lucas Garrets Master of a shipp or flute belonging to holland
then trading in those part, with whom this deponent mett at Sea about sixe
dayes before the seizure of the said shipp Rappahannack of whom this
deponent asking whether there were any men of warr upon that Coast, hee
answered noe, but that there were some dutch merchant shipps,
and that hee know where their Owners and Imployers lived, as well as
hee know where his owne Owners lived, and that if hee were in
Amsterdam, hee could presently goe to their or severall of their houses and
habitations in that place, and moreover that the said shipps were not
Spanish, nor did belong to Spaniards, and that therefore hee did not
feare them under any such notion, And partly for that the said
Commander John Scroll and the Gunner of the said shipp the
Unicorne (this deponent the said Seizure being brought on board her
and there continueing a prisoner for about 6. weekes after) did
severall times declare in the hearing of this deponent that the said shipps
were sett out, as aforesaid, by the said Vandergoes and others Subjects
of the States of the said United Provinces, and saith that both the
said Scroll and one Claes or Nicholas Prince Merchant or
Supra Cargo of the said Shipp Marie did aboard the said shipp
Unicorne declare to this deponent that they had in and aboard the
said shipps a Cargaison for the procuring of two Thousand
ffive hundred Negroes to be transported to Carthagena in the
West Indies there to be disposed of and sold for the use of accompt
of such their dutch Proprietors And further saith, That soe long as
this deponent continued a prisoner in and aboard the said shipp Unicorne,
hee well observed that all or the most part of their shipps Victualls
and provisions consisted in [?grott], horse-beanes and other provisions
usually employed in shipps fitted a victualled from holland and the
other united provinces, an that severall of the said shipps Companie
then confessed, that the provisions of beef, and sundry tunns of
water which they then had aboard the said shipps had beene by them
taken in, in the said united Netherlands, or words and expressions
to that or the like effect. Hee further saith, That hee this deponent