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To the 8th article of the sayd allegation … To the 8th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that the hundred and<br />
sixty Negroes seized in manner aforesayd aboard the ''Sara'' would have<br />
yeilded either at Virginia or the Barbadoes in the yeare 1656 if they<br />
had bin transported thither at the least thirty pounds sterling per<br />
head for every Negro either in money or goods of these Countries<br />
And this deponent after hee was released of his imprisonment<br />
went in the sayd yeare 1656 to the Barbadoes, and there saw Negroes [?that GUTTER]<br />
yeare there sold at the rate above specified, And hee this deponent<br />
verily beleeveth that the Negroes surprized on board the ''Rapahannack''<br />
would at these places alsoe have yeilded the rates aforesayd, And<br />
further hee cannot to this article depose./
To the 9th hee saith hee knoweth there was on board the ''Sara'' at<br />
her seizure (besides the Negroes aforesayd) for Accompt of the sayd<br />
LLewellin a very considerable quantitie of Elephants teeth worth<br />
in this deponents Judgement eight hundred pounds sterling or thereto<br />
and that there were also aboard her at the same tyme Cloathes Sea<br />
Instruments and other goods belonging to the Master and Company of<br />
the ''Sarah'' worth at their seizure in this deponents Judgement a thousand<br />
pounds sterling at least, And saith the sayd shipps outward Cargo belonging to the sayd LLewellin and<br />
remayning aboard her undisposed of at the tyme of her seizure<br />
was alsoe in this deponents judgement then well worth three or<br />
fower hundred pounds sterling all which hee knoweth was seized<br />
by the sayd Scrol and his Companys of the ''Mary'' and ''Unicorne'', and<br />
the sayd LLewellin and other the Owners thereof utterly deprived of<br />
the same And further to this article hee cannot depose./
To the 10th hee saith the shipp ''Sara'' and her tackle gunnes apparell<br />
and furniture at the tumes of her seizure were in this deponents Judgement<br />
well worth seaven hundred pounds sterling, and her freight for the<br />
voyage in question would in this deponents Judgment have amounted<br />
to at least seaven hundred pounds more of like money, And the wages<br />
of her Company for the sayd voyage would in this deponents Judgement<br />
have amounted to seaven hundred pounds more of the like money, And<br />
as touching the value of the ''Rapahannack'' hee beleeveth at her<br />
seizure shee and her rigging gunnes apparell and furniture were<br />
worth about a thousand pounds like money, and as to her ladeing hee<br />
cannot depose the value thereof And further cannot depose
To the 11th hee saith hee well knoweth being Masters Mate of the ''Sarah'' as<br />
aforesayd that the sayd Scroll having seized the ''Sarah'' the ''Rapahannack''<br />
and two other English shipps, tooke away all their provisions of victualls<br />
and gave them instead thereof only two butts of beanes about a hundred of stock fish and two smale<br />
ferkins of beafe and about three hundred weight of rotten mouldie bread, and then<br />
put all the companyes of the fower shipps aboard the ''Sarah'' with that<br />
smale quantitie of provision which was all very badd and some smale quanititie of badd tackle<br />
(they haveing taken away all that was good and all their gunnes) and soe<br />
turned all the sayd fower Companyes in the sayd shipp ''Sarah'' (soe ill<br />
provided) to shift for them selves, by meanes whereof to avoid perishing<br />
they were constrayned to exchange the sayd shipp at the Island of Saint Thomas for<br />
a smaler shipp with better tackle, and some victualls to carry them to the<br />
Barbadoesto carry them to the<br />
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