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The 28th of September 1657.
The claime of … The 28th of September 1657.
The claime of Egbert Scutt, John da Potter}<br />
and Company of Amsterdam for the shipp the}<br />
''morning starr'' (Claus Willms Master) and goods}<br />
and for freight. Suckly. Budd.}
Exámined upon an allegation<br />
given in on the behalfe of the<br />
said claimers.
'''Rp. 1us'''
'''John Peterson''' of Amsterdám Marriner<br />
Stiersman of the shipp the ''Morning starr'', aged<br />
27 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and exámined
To the first and second árticles hee saith hee well knoweth the shipp the Morning<br />
Starr arlate and hath soe donne for theise seaventeene monethes last<br />
or thereabouts during which space hee hath served as Stiersman in her,<br />
and knoweth the producent Egbert Scutt who with his company are<br />
commonly accounted owners of the said shipp and of her tackle and furniture.<br />
And saith that in the moneth of May 1656 the said Egbert Scutt and<br />
company set out the said shipp from Amsterdam under conduct of<br />
Claus Williams her Master upon a trading Voyage for the<br />
Western Islands, laden with oile, Spanish wine, hatts, knives<br />
aqua vita and severall other commodities to be bartered and trucked<br />
away for tobaccoe and other goods such as hee the said master (being<br />
appointed factor, or sub-marchant in that behalfe) could meete with and<br />
might be most advantagious for his said imployers, owners of the said<br />
shipp, and to retourne therewith for holland for their áccount, All<br />
which hee knoweth being at Amsterdam shipped stiersman of the<br />
said shipp and acquainted with the designe of the voyage.
To the third árticles hee saith and deposeth that the said master<br />
and company departing from Amsterdam arived in or about<br />
July last with a twelvemoneth (to his best remembrance of the<br />
time) at that Island of Tobago saith the said shipp and outwards<br />
ladinge, and went thense to the wilde coast of the West Indies<br />
where they did barter away severall parcells of the said outwards lading, and<br />
therewith bought and acquired upwards of eight thousand weight<br />
of tobaccoe (as hee estimateth the quantitie) contained in seaven ánd thirtie greate rolls and<br />
severall small rolls of tobaccoe, six greate barreles, and tenn<br />
small barells of tobaccoe and one caske of tobaccoe, all which<br />
were laden aboard the said shipp at or neere the Wilde coast of<br />
the West Indies to be transported for holland for the account of<br />
the said owners, And further<br />
that there were on the said coast gotten upon truck and laden<br />
aboard her by and for account of the shipps company about<br />
thirteene hundred weight of the foresaid roll sort of tobaccoe<br />
in barrells and rolls; and one hide and a halfe. And that all<br />
the tobaccoes in the said shipp were for the account aforesaid, saving<br />
eighteene Potaccose which were afterwards taken in at the Canaries<br />
for account of Augustin Rosetti a Genoese, which hee saith are<br />
varinas tobaccoes, all which hee knoweth being stiersmann of the<br />
said shipp and seeing the premisses soe donne, And otherwise hee<br />
cannot depose
Totherwise hee<br />
cannot depose
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