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Transcription

To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first hee saith hee this deponent in companie with
his brother aforesaid and another of his brothers named Joris Johnson
living in Amsterdam hath a one and fourtieth part of the [?shipp]
Nicholas aforesaid (being devided into an hundred two and fourtie
parts) belonging unto him, and the like share in the goods predeposed
belonging to the owners laden aboard the said shipp, And saith the
rest of the owners with their shares and parts in the said shipp and
the said goods of the owners are as followeth, videlicet hartia Johnson
owner of a fifteenth and a quarter part (of 142 parts) of the said
shipp and lading of the owners. Peter Poulla nyneteene parts
William Johnson van Magran three parts and seaven eighth parts
Albert [?Verimenten] the like, Bartle Barentson Weymar the like
Timon Cornelison Punt the like, Alwin hendrickson two and a
halfe parts; Peter Jacobson one part and Jeronimo da Busse tenn
and three quarter parts, All which persons hee saith are [Burgers]
of Amsterdam and natives (as hee beleeveth) of that place, and that
the widowe and heires of daniel Brands of hamburgh have
one and thirtie{th} parts or shares in the said shipp and said lad[ing]
of the owners being as aforesaid devided into an hundred two and
fourtie parts, and saith they were all owners at the time of the said
seizure, daniel Brands
himselfe who was liveing when the shipp was bought, being then dead.

To the second hee saith that his said brother Claes Johnson was
commander and this deponent master of the said shipp Nicholas
when shee was seized, and was then aboard her. And saith hee
never knew the said shipp before hee as aforesaid met her at
Cadiz and bought her of Vice Admirall de Ruyter, And referreth
himselfe to his foregoeing deposition, saying there was noe skipper in or
of her when hee soe bought her, shee being a prize taken from the
Turkes as aforesaid.

To the third hee saith hee came first aboard the Yellow Sun interrogate at
Amsterdam and there his said brother came alsoe first aboard the
shipp the [?Eagle] interrogate, of which shipps they were respectively masters
as aforesaid, and in company sailed together out the
Texel for A[?rdre] on the coast of Guiney where they traffiqued
and tooke in their Negro's predeposed, and touched or stopped at noe
port by the way but only at Sierra Leona, where they went
in for water and wood. And from Ardre departing as aforesaid
for Martinica or Saint Christofers or other free place as aforesaid
they touched at Margarita for water and refreshing but getting
none they went to Comana[?s] on the terra ferma to get some, but
could gett none, whereupon they went to nowa Barcelona where
they got some, and thence to the Caracas where they got a little
more, and some deale boards and plancs to mend their shipps,
thence to Corsow a dutch Iland to carreen, but finding
noe convenience stood off againe, and the next place they came
at was Santa domingo as aforesaid being as aforesaid forced in
by stresse of weather, and partly through want of victualls.

To the fourth hee saith hee was never at Martinica or Saint
Christofers, but his brother Claes Johnson hath bin at Martinica
and saith that according to the card they live an hundred leagues
and upwards to windward of Santa domingo, and nearer
to Guiney than Santa domingo, but the said two shipps being [?constrained]
to goe upon the coast of the terra firma of West India for water and victualls as
aforesaid