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'''B.9.'''
The sixteenth day of March 165 … '''B.9.'''
The sixteenth day of March 1653
On the behalfe of Joachim}<br />
Wichman, Jacob Martin}<br />
and others Owners of the}<br />
shipp the ''Saint George'' of}<br />
Hamburgh whereof}<br />
Jurian Schoemaker is}<br />
Master and goods in the same now lyeing in}<br />
the Downes Smith Suckly}
'''Jurian Schoemaker''' of Hamburg<br />
Mariner Master of the sayd shipp the ''Saint George''<br />
of Hamburgh aged 39. yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne in Court before the Judges of<br />
the High Court of Admiralty and examined<br />
deposeth and saitha s followeth videlicet
[?'''vpr''']
That the foresayd shipp the ''Saint George'' was and is a shipp belonging<br />
to the Port and Citty of Hamburgh, and to merchants and others<br />
there dwelling that is to say Joachim Wichman, Jacob Martin<br />
Jurian Beckster Hendrick Momma, Augustin Hendrickson<br />
Harman Hendrickson, the heyres of Philip Bonn the heyres<br />
of Hans Van Holt, the widdow of Evart Ursenholt and<br />
him this deponent, all which persons (the heyres of Hans Van Holt<br />
excepted, who are young and natives of Hamburgh) for theis twenty<br />
yeares last past and upwards have bene and now are Inhabitants of<br />
Hamburgh and subiects of the ffree State thereof, and all of them<br />
Burghers or Burghers Children of the same place, and for theis<br />
eleven yeares last they and their Ancestors have bene, and themselves<br />
now are the true sole and lawfull Owners of the sayd shipp and her<br />
tackle apparell and furniture, they and their forefathers having built<br />
the same eleven yeares agoe att their owne Costs and ever sithence<br />
continued as now they are in the quiet possession thereof, by this deponent as<br />
Master of her in their behalfe from the tyme of her first building<br />
And saith that the sayd ship being bound for Rohan in ffrance tooke in<br />
all her present ladinmg being peece goods att Hamburgh, the greatest<br />
part of all which her lading did and doth belong to and was laden for<br />
the sole and proper accompt and Adventure of merchants Burghers<br />
and Inhabitants of Hamburgh and the remainder was laden for<br />
accompt of and doth belong to merchants of free places in the Empire<br />
and Sweden videlicet Leipzick Elbersell Hildedusen [?XXXX] Bremen Stockholm<br />
and Emden, and that the sayd shipp having taken in her sayd<br />
lading of peice goods sett sayle therewith under Comand and<br />
Conduct of this deponent about eleven dayes now past from Hamburgh<br />
and came and arrived in the Downes about five dayes now past and<br />
was and is bound to the Port of Rohan in ffrance there to make her<br />
discharge of her sayd goods which are there to be delivered to the<br />
factors and for the accompts of the merchants of Hamburgh Leipzick Elber felt and<br />
other the free cities and places above mentioned for whose accompt<br />
the same were laden as aforesayd. And that the sayd shipp after<br />
full [de]livery made of the sayd goods att Rohan is to returne directly<br />
to the Port and Citty of Hamburgh and to noe other Port or Place<br />
And lastly saith that noe Hollander or ffrenchman, or any person<br />
whatsoever subiect to the States of the United Provinces or King of<br />
ffrance or any other Prince or State in hostility with this Commonwealth<br />
of England had or hath any part share, or interest in the sayd shipp<br />
or her lading or any part thereof.
Jürgen Schumaker [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]of.
Jürgen Schumaker [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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