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To the 11.th and 12th hee cannot depose sa … To the 11.th and 12th hee cannot depose saveing as aforesaid./
To the 13th hee saith hee was not a wittnes to the bill of sale<br />
interrogated, And further saith that as hee hath heard the said Boyer was<br />
built above 20ty yeares since att Serdam in Holland, by or for Peter<br />
Johnson Catt in Hamborowe And that the interrogated Abraham Stockman<br />
and Company have since bought the same./
Repeated before doctor Clarke.
Jan [?SaldaXXis] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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Moore and LLewellin et al}
'''vide exam. [?the] 24. Maij.'''
The answ[?a]r of the foresaid '''William Shears''' to the Interrogatories.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that hee carried out in the said<br />
shipp the voyage in question betwixt thirtie and fourtie pounds worth of goods<br />
in cloth and sutes of clothes, and was to paie about 30 s freight for the said goods<br />
being contained in one chest, amountinge in bulke not to above halfe a tonne<br />
which freight hee is to allowe upon accompt to the freighters or imployers of<br />
the said shipp, and hee this examinate brought home for his owne accompt<br />
proper 2[??1] hogsheads of tobacco, for which hee is to pay freight 25 li after<br />
5 li per tonne to the said freighters. And saith that the interrogated LLewellin,<br />
Ba[?man] and Mackerell carried or sent out goods in wines, cloth, linnen<br />
and woollen, haberdasarie, [?groceria]. Ironware and other goods to the valew<br />
of 500 li sterling or thereabouts for their owne accompt, and had brought<br />
home the said voyage for their accompt betwixt 120 and 130 hogsheads<br />
of tobaccoe. Besides his this deponents father Abraham Sheares<br />
had in the said shipp out ward bound for his accompt 400 li pounds worth<br />
of godds in such like commodities as aforesaid as linnen and other<br />
English goods, and had f[?ourtie] hogsheads of tobaccoe amounting to<br />
tenn tonns, brought home in the said shipp, And otherwise referring<br />
himselfe to his foregeoing deposition made to the allegation in this cause hee cannot<br />
answer. saving there were severall other goods carried in the said shipp<br />
both outwards and homewards for severall other persons, the names<br />
whereof hee remembreth not.
To the second hee saith that hee sawe all such goods as were carried<br />
out and brought home in the said shipp for the accompt of the said LLewellin,<br />
Ba[?man] and Mackerell opened and viewed the same at the time of the<br />
unlading thereof, in the presence of diverse of the shipps<br />
company as the cooper, and others, and saith there was not any of the<br />
tobaccoes brought home d[?rie] trotten that hee knoweth of, saving about<br />
foure or five hogsheads of this deponents owne tobaccoes soe brought home<br />
were drie rotten, and hee beleeveth there were ohers of other m[?a]ns<br />
alsoe drie rotten, and hee beleevet there were others of other mans<br />
alsoe drie rotten, but hee doth not remember that hee hath said or<br />
told the same to any before this present.
To the third hee saith that the said Llewellin, Baman and Mackerell<br />
victualled and manned the said shipp [XX] paid the mans wages for the said voyage, and<br />
the interrogated William Garn[?o]t the master and all the rest of her company<br />
were in the service and pay of the said Llewellin, Baman and Mackerell<br />
and hee doth not conceive or understand that the said Garnet was to repaire<br />
or fitt the said shipp for the said voyage, or was intrusted by the said freighters<br />
soe to doe, the said shipp being to be fitted and made sufficient by the<br />
owners to the freighters hands before her proceeding hence, And otherwise<br />
hee cannot answer, saving the said shipp seemed to this deponent at her<br />
proceeding to be well fitted and prepared, nor did hee [?heare] the said Garnet<br />
the master take any [?exceptions] at her fitting.
To the fourth hee answereth negatively, saying that the said shipp met with<br />
noe extr[?a]mitie of stormes or [XXXX] of weather ither going or coming.
To the fifth hee saith that hee this deponent caused the said shipp at Virginia<br />
to be repaired as aforesaid, and soe farr as hee or the workmen were able<br />
and could get conv[e?eniencies] in that place, shee was sufficiently repaired,<br />
but not soe well as if shee had bin here where more con[XXXXX] was to bee<br />
had. And otherwise hee cannot answer saving as aforesaid.
Repeated before doctor [ExXXn]
Will Sheres [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] [ExXXn]
Will Sheres [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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