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knowledge but hath heard and beleeveth that the shipp the Saint Jacob whereof
John Clason was Master did fall fowle of the Isaack at Sea and brake [?downe GUTTER]
all her masts and her side[?s] and did her other much dammage wherby shee
was left in the sea in a perishing condition; And as hee hath heard
and beleeveth by meanes thereof the shipp and her ladeing and eleven passengers
who continued aboard her perished and were utterly lost And further hee
cannot answere/

To the 6th Interrogatorie hee saith hee knew the ship Isaack and saith shee was
of the burthen of ffowerscore tonne and upwards and was worth shee her tackle
and furniture the tyme Interrogated in this deponents Judgment (shee being a strong
shipp and carrying fower gunnes) sixe hundred pound lawfull English money
And saith that the Interrogant Robert Saunders and William Thomas her
Master were two of her Owners the tyme Interrogate And saith the
twenty two slabbs avoard her for this deponents Accompt were worth the
summe of one hundred thirty two pounds fowerteene shillings sterling
And further as to the value of her ladeing for that hee knoweth not the
particulers nor quantitie of it hee cannot depose./

To the last Interrogatorie hee saith hee cannot depose having not heard the Master or
Company of the Saint Jacob say any thing to the effect Interrogate./

See B5:

Repeated before doctor Godolphin/

John Bateman [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The eighth of Aprill 1658.

On the behalfe of Catherin)
kil[?v]erth against the Providence)

Examined upon an allegation given in on the behalfe
of the said Mris kil?wert 31 March last

Smith dt.

1

Hezekiah Usher of Boston in New England Stationer
aged 42 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined

To the sixth article and second schedule hee saith and deposeth that the contents of the
said second schedule is true, and that this deponent is the same
hezakiah Usher therein mentioned, who entred the action on behalfe
of the parties therein mentioned and declared as in the said schedule
is contained, and that Judgment or the Juries Verdict was
given as therein is expressed, and that this deponent extracted
the said schedule out of the originall thereof remaining at
Boston in New England, and saith hee knoweth Edward
Ranson who subscribed the same, and is Recorder there. And saith
there was after the said Judgment or verdict securitie given to
this deponent to the use of Colonell Temple by Robert Patsh[?a]ll
on behalfe of Roger kilvart, and company for the summe mentioned
in the said schedule found by the Jury, videlicet one hundred and
eleaven pounds twelve shillings damages and three pounds and
eight pence costs of sute, which securitie this deponent left in the
hand of Thomas Lake (mentioned in the said schedule) his fellow
Agent, to the end that hee should receive the said money to the use aforesaid
But as touching fifteene pounds paid for a mariners wages,
hee knoweth
nothing thereof but knoweth that the shipp allegate was arrested by or at the sute
of a mariner or mariners, but who such mariner
or mariners hee knoweth not, And further cannot depose

Repeated before doctor Godolphin

Hezekiah Usher [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

Topics

People

Roger Kilvart/Kilvert

Hezekiah Usher

A Wikipedia article on Hezekiah Usher (b.1615, d. 1676) states that he was the first known book seller in British America. This source states that Usher was born in Bethnal Green, and moved with his brother Robert Usher to the Massachusetts Bay colony by 1642, when he appears as the owner of a house in Cambridge, MA.

Sources

Primary sources

TNA

PROB

PROB 4/13038 Engrossed Inventories Exhibited from 1660. Kilvert, Margaret, of St. Martin in the Feilds, Mdx, widdow. 12 February 1676

PROB 11/267/429 Will of Roger Kilvert, Merchant of London 17 September 1657
PROB 11/311/492 Will of Roger Kilvert, Mariner of London 16 July 1663

Status
Volume	HCA 13/72
Folio	273
Side	Verso
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First transcriber
Colin Greenstreet
First transcribed
2013/09/29
Editorial history
unknown