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Companie of the said shipp ''Sarah'' since … Companie of the said shipp ''Sarah'' since there seizure hereafter<br />
Deduced, Declare and affirme, That at the time of such their seizure<br />
they had aboard the said shipp one hundred and sixty Negroes or therabouts
To the fifth hee saith, That in the moneth of September in the<br />
yeare 1656: aforesaid, the said shipp ''Rapahannacke'' being and<br />
remaineing neere the Coast of Guinney aforesaid in there a quiett and peaceable<br />
trading and in order thereunto sayling towards Cape Lopes arlate<br />
two Dutch shipps the one called the ''marie'' of Amsterdam, and the<br />
other being, as was then and after the said seizure generally reported á<br />
shipp of Zeeland under the Command of the arlate John Scroll<br />
reputed to be a Native hollander and a Subiect of the States of that<br />
Countrey, mett with the said shipp the ''Rappahannacke'' and did<br />
in a violent and hostile manner seize and surprize the same, and<br />
thereof and of the said Negroes and remaining Cargaison utterly<br />
despoyled and deprived the Master Companie and Owners of the<br />
said shipp tackle apparrell furniture and goods and converted the same to the use of the said<br />
Scroll and Companie. Which the premisses this deponent saith hee well<br />
knoweth by sadd and suffring experience being as aforesaid Masters<br />
mate of the said shipp at the time of the seizure aforesaid:/<br />
and shortly after the said seizure saw and observed<br />
the said shipp ''Sarah'' with her tackle apparrell furniture and lading to<br />
have beene alsoe seized and to bee in the command power and<br />
possession of the said Scroll and Companie. And further cannot<br />
depose./
To the .6th article hee saith, That hee this deponent after the said seizure<br />
being brought and remaining a Prisoner on board the said shipp wherein<br />
the said Captaine Scroll then was, there heard and observed that both the said<br />
shipps had come in Companie from the Texell in holland, and<br />
belonged to Subjects of that United Netherlands, and saith, That<br />
at such time as the said seizure was made, the said dutch shipps wore<br />
the Spanish Colours but that the evening immediately preceeding the<br />
said seizure this deponent and Companie saw them carrie the Middleburgh<br />
or dutch Colours they being then at an anchor under the said Cape, and<br />
that during all the time this deponent remained a prisoner in the said<br />
Scrolls shipp, which was for about five weekes after the said seizure<br />
hee sawe and observed that when any shipp came in view of them, they<br />
putt forth the dutch or Middleborough Colours aforesaid, but afterwards<br />
upon occasion of pursuite or seizure they wore the Spanish Colours<br />
hee further saith, That about five or six daies before the seizure of the<br />
said shipp ''Rappahannack'', shee meeting in the River of Gaboone<br />
upon the said Coast of Guinney with a dutch flyeboate of Amster<br />
dam whereof one Lucas Garrett was Master, the said Lucas Garrett<br />
came on board the said shipp ''Rappahannack'', and upon discourse between<br />
the saide Master and Captaine they had received advise were<br />
about that Coast, the said Garrett in this deponents hearing told theGarrett in this deponents hearing told the +
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