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'''42.'''
'''Sampson'''
The 24th of Sept … '''42.'''
'''Sampson'''
The 24th of September<br />
1653/. [CENTRE HEADING]
The keepers of the libertie of England by authoritie of}<br />
Parliament against a certaine shipp named the ''Sampson''}<br />
whereof Otto George was commander, and the silver and other}<br />
goods in the same, seized by the shipps of this Commonwealth in}<br />
the immediate service thereof. Budd. ffrancklin, Smith.}
Examined upon the<br />
allegation given in by<br />
Mr Budd on the<br />
behalfe of the State the<br />
20th instant.
'''.jus.'''
'''Abraham Johnson''' of the precinct of Saint Catherins<br />
neere the tower of London Sailemaker, aged 35<br />
yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the seaventh article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that hee<br />
well knoweth the shipp the ''Sampson'' arlate and hath soe donne for theise eight or nine yeares last<br />
past, during which space shee hath begun and made all her voyages<br />
from Amsterdam, and returned thither and ended the same there, and saith<br />
that for all the said time the said shipp the ''Sampson'' hath bin accompted<br />
and reputed to belonge to Amsterdam, which hee knoweth to be true, because<br />
hee this deponent for all the said time ended in September 1652 lived and was a saile maker in<br />
Amsterdam and sawe such comming in and going thence of the said shipp.<br />
And further saith that the said shipp began<br />
this her last voyage from the said citie and port of Amsterdam in the<br />
yeare 1649, and that at and before that time and since one Peter Eleson<br />
residing in Amsterdam was a part owner and proprietor of the said shipp<br />
and unto him as a part owner thereof the said Otto George hath at Amsterdam<br />
severall times accompted for the freight which the said shipp had earned of<br />
this deponents sight and knowledge, being often present at the said accompting at the house of<br />
the said Peter Eleson, who then kept an ordinary at the signe of the Redd post horne<br />
at the sea dike, and for a part owner of the said shipp the ''Sampson'' the<br />
said Peter Eleson hath bin for all the time aforesaid<br />
commonly accompted and reputed./.
To the eighth and 9th articles hee saith and deposeth that about nine yeares since hee this<br />
deponent as one of the company of the said shipp the ''Sampson'' sailed from Amsterdam<br />
to Cadiz being hired by the said Otto George to goe the said voyage<br />
saile maker of the said vessell, and after the said shipps arrivall at Cadiz the<br />
said Otto George having dischardged his outward lading from Amsterdam went<br />
and made voyages into the Straights and to Malaga for freights and<br />
to linger out the time untill the retourne of the Spanish fleete from<br />
the West Indies, and while hee soe stayed there or came into any other<br />
port of Spaine that voyage, hee the said Otto George usually gave out<br />
and affirmed that the said shipp belonged to hamburgh (there being then warrs<br />
betwixt Spaine and holland) and when hee hird men that voyage at Cadiz<br />
or in the Straights hee the said Otto George still hired them for hamburg<br />
and even this deponent and other of the company that came with him from<br />
Amsterdam being dischardged at Cadiz, were rehired by him for<br />
hamborough and told by him that hee fully purposed to goe with the<br />
said shipp from Cadiz to hamborough, and yet hee went and<br />
unladed at Amsterdam, and this pretence hee made that it might not<br />
be knowne that the said shipp belonged to Amsterdam and was unfree<br />
in regard of the said warrs, and upon the accompt of belonging to<br />
hamborough the said shipp in her retourne that voyage from Cadiz<br />
comming into the Channell was boarded by the dunquirkers, and the men<br />
strictly examined whether the said shipp was bound, and they affirmed for<br />
hamborough, they were tortured, and this deponent who knewe not but<br />
in truth shee was bound for hamborough had lighted matches tied<br />
betwixtd lighted matches tied<br />
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