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before hee sett from Gravesend the sayd sh … before hee sett from Gravesend the sayd shipp ''William'' arrived not in James<br />
River in Virginia untill the two and twentieth day of Aprill 1655 And<br />
further hee cannot to these articles depose/
To the 9th hee cannot depose/
To the 10th hee saith hee knoweth that after the sayd shipp the ''William'' arrived<br />
in Virginia this deponent heard by divers in Virginia that before<br />
her arrivall, there, there was about the latter end of March or beginning of Aprill 1655 a report in Virginia by reason shee<br />
was soe longe before shee came thither, that the sayd shipp was either<br />
cast away or taken by the ffrench as prize and that shee would not<br />
come to Virginia that yeare And further to this article hee cannot depose
To the 11th hee saith hee cannot depose not knowing what tonnage the arlate<br />
Walls had in the sayd Ewers shipp, nor what hee writt to the sayd<br />
arlate Samuell Mathews thereabout, nor what tobaccoes the sayd Mathews<br />
laded aboard other shipps before the arrivall of the sayd Ewers shipp, nor<br />
what tobaccoes hee laded aboard Ewers shipp after her arrivall./
To the 12th hee saith that hee hath used the trade of Virginia for these<br />
eight yeares last past and thereby knoweth that it is the Constant practize<br />
and custome in Virginia with those that have Cropps of tobaccoe<br />
there (if they bee not certayne of the arrivall of a shipp to transporte<br />
them in afterwards) to send the same after the middle of March is<br />
once past for England by any shipps or vessells that they can and if<br />
none bee present then to barter the same away to any that will take<br />
it for the like quantitie to bee given them to Cropp following, or<br />
to send it to New England or other places if they can in regard<br />
tobaccoe will not without extraordinary care had thereto keepe<br />
in Virginia from one harvest to an other, and therefore is usually<br />
disposed of about the middle of March at the furthest next after<br />
the growth thereof, unlesse as aforesayd they bee sure of some shipp<br />
that will arrive to lade the same And further to this article hee cannot depose
To the 13 hee saith hee knoweth that the ''James'' the ''Golden Lyon'' the ''Seaven''<br />
''Sisters'' and the ''John and Katherine'' did goe to Virginia<br />
the voyage arlate but the tyme when they were cleered at Gravesend<br />
or of their departure thense, or arrivall at Virginia, hee knoweth not, and<br />
further cannot depose saving hee saith hee verily beleeveth the sayd Ewers<br />
if hee had not stayed soe longe at Gravesend and other places, but gone directly<br />
on his voyage to Virginia in October 1654 according as hee promised<br />
to doe might have come in tyme convenient to Virginia and not<br />
have returned thense dead freighted as hee did And further hee<br />
cannot depose/
To the 14th hee cannot depose saving
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/
To the Interrogatories/ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee answereth negatively for his part
To the 2 hee saith hee is a mariner, but was none of the mariners of the<br />
Company of the ''William'' the voyage in question, but only a passenger<br />
in her both outwards and homewards bound, and continued abaord from<br />
Gravesend to Virginia and from her returne from Virginia till her arrivall<br />
at London where hee left her And saith that after the 12th of december<br />
1654fter the 12th of december<br />
1654 +
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