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the ''Sarah'' had likewise been there bart … the ''Sarah'' had likewise been there bartered away and invested in<br />
163- Negroes or thereabouts, and that they were in the quiett and<br />
peaceable possession of the same upon the high and open Seas neere<br />
unto a place called Cape de Lopez in Guiney aforesaid at such time as<br />
the said shipps and their respective Ladings were Surprized and taken<br />
as hereafter reste to bee deduced, And further hee cannot depose
To the 5th Article of the said Allogation hee saith, That in or about the<br />
moneth of September 1656. and upon the 11th day of the said moneth<br />
according to the English style, the said shipp the ''Rappahannack'' under<br />
the Conduct of this deponent being at Sea with the said 53. or 54. Negroes<br />
and the residue of the said Cargo. and sayling towards and<br />
being in sight of the said Cape de Lopes upon her quiett and peacable trading<br />
was mett with by to dutch shipps the one called the ''Mary'' of<br />
Amsterdam, and the other called the ''Unicorne'' of Middleburgh both<br />
of them being commanded by the arlate John Scroll a dutchman<br />
and Subject of the States of the United Provinces, which did then in<br />
a violent and hostile manner sett upon surprize and take the said<br />
shipp the ''Rappahannacke'' together with her Tackle furniture and<br />
Negroes and the rest of her lading, and dispoyled and utterly deprived<br />
this deponent and Companie thereof and converted the same to the use<br />
and benefitt of the said John Scroll and Companie. The premisses hee<br />
knoweth by sadd and personall experience. And further saith, That by and<br />
according to the credible relation of the said Arthur Perkins and Companie<br />
the said two dutch shipps in the moneth of August immediately<br />
precedent had alsoe in a violent and<br />
hostile manner assaulted surprized and taken the said shipp the ''Sarah''<br />
and her tackle furniture and Negroes aforesaid, shee being at an anchor<br />
at or neere Cape de Lopes aforesaid, and had dispoyled and deptaved the<br />
said Master and Companie thereof. And that indeed this deponent being<br />
himselfe and his said shipp shortly after suprized and taken as aforesaid<br />
did see the said shipp ''Sarah'' in the power and possession of the said<br />
John Scroll and of those under his Command in the said dutch shipps<br />
And further cannot depose:-
To the 6th article hee saith, That the said shipps the ''Mary'' and<br />
''Unicorne'' at the time of the surprizall of this deponents said shipp the<br />
''Rappahannacke'' were dutch shipps, that is the ''Mary'' was and is a<br />
shipp built at Amsterdam in holland, and the said shipp ''Unicorne''<br />
a shipp which had beene taken by the hollanders or Zealanders from the<br />
Portugueze, and had been repaired and built upon in Zeeland, and saith<br />
That at the time aforesaid both the said shipps carried Spanish Colours,<br />
but the night immediately preceeding the said seizure, this deponent had<br />
seene them carry the Colours of Middleborough in Zeeland, And further<br />
said that the said shipps were from the said United Provinces sett outre from the said United Provinces sett out +
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