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To the eleaventh hee saith hee knoweth not … To the eleaventh hee saith hee knoweth not any<br />
other owner of the said shipp but only the said Egbert Scut<br />
who hee saith dwelling at the Kock end in Amsterdam, and<br />
hee verily beleeveth that noe fflandrian or other subiect of<br />
the king of Spaine whatsoever hath any interest of share on the<br />
said shipp the ''Morning Starr'', And otherwise hee cannot answer<br />
saving his foregoing deposition to which hee referreth himselfe.
fredryck Claesen [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The first of October 1657.<br />
exámined upon the foresaid allegation<br />
on behalfe of the claimers.
'''Rp. 3.'''
'''Claus Willems''' of Amsterdam mariner<br />
master of the said shipp the ''Morning Starr''<br />
aged 38 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and<br />
exámined.
To the first árticle hee saith and deposeth that the producents<br />
Egbert Scutt and John da Potter have bin for all the time arlate<br />
and are the true and lawfull owners and proprietors of the shipp the<br />
''Morning starr'' arlate and of her tackle apparell and furniture and<br />
for such commonly accounted, which hee knoweth being present and privie<br />
to their buying her about twenty monethes since at Amsterdam, and<br />
being by them constituted Master upon such their buying of her.
To the second and third árticles hee saith and deposeth that about seaventeene<br />
monethes since the said producents set out the said shipp from Amsterdam<br />
under conduct of this deponent {laden} with some oile, Spanish wine,<br />
hatts, knives, brandewine and other commodities proper for the trade<br />
of the Wester Ilands whether shee was designed, and proceeded from the<br />
Texel in that voyage on the seaventeenth of May 1656 New Stile, and<br />
about six weekes after arived at Tobago one of the Wester or<br />
Caribbe Ilands, in which parts this deponent (who was alsoe<br />
merchant for his said imployers) was to dispose and truck away the<br />
said outwards goods for tobacco for the best proffit of his said<br />
imployers the owners of the said shipp, but not finding the season proper<br />
at Tobago this deponent went to the Wilde coast of the West Indies<br />
and there trading, did upon truck and barter for part of his said<br />
outwards goods buy and provide for his said owners account upwards<br />
of eight thousand pound weight of tobaccoe, XXXXXX 92li of tobaccoe, and for his owne account about seaven hundred pounds weight of tobaccoe, all contained in seaven and thirtie greate<br />
and severall small rolls of tobaccoe, six greate and tenn small fats or<br />
barrells of tobaccoe and a cask of tobaccoes, all which were laden aboard<br />
the said shipp to be transported for Amsterdam for his said owners and his account<br />
respectively as aforesaid And saith that there were there alsoe laden aboard her for the account<br />
of the shipps company about thirteene hundred weight of tobaccoe<br />
in barrels and rolls, and one hide and a halfe. And that all the tobaccoe [XXX GUTTER]<br />
thatthe tobaccoe [XXX GUTTER]<br />
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