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Amsterdam and was bound for the Island of … Amsterdam and was bound for the Island of Eustathia a plantation of the States of the united Netherlands<br />
in the west Indies, and this deponent telling him<br />
that hee beleeved hee would goe for the Spanish West Indies<br />
and that hee this deponent or other of the English frigots should meet him as<br />
hee came home, and therefore this deponent [?charged]<br />
her to take in a chest of plate for him, and afterwards<br />
when this deponent soe met him after the said<br />
seizure this deponent challenging him with<br />
their said meeting and and the discourse that hath<br />
betweene them off the Cape finisterra,<br />
this deponent asked him where was his chest<br />
of plate that hee had bespoke of him, the said<br />
van lymen shrugged up his shoulders. and further<br />
hee saith that the said van lymen being in his said<br />
passage for Tolon after the seizure asked<br />
by this deponent and others to whom his lading of<br />
goods belonged, hee [xxxxxsted] that hee did not knowe<br />
but said the shipp was his and his owners, but<br />
yet did not express who were his owners.<br />
and that the said van lymen alsoe confessed that<br />
hee had a Spanish Captain aboard when this<br />
deponent soe met him off Cape finis terra<br />
and that the said Captaine was then hid in his<br />
shipp, and this deponent understood that the<br />
said Spanish Captain was that person that<br />
acted as principall in the said shipps businnes<br />
at Santa domingo, and that all there was donne<br />
by Spaniards, and saith that the said Moller<br />
affirming himselfe to be supra cargo, this<br />
deponent and others asked him where were<br />
his orders and where his dispatches, he said<br />
he had truly none and for bills of lading<br />
toone and for bills of lading<br />
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