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át the time of the seizure aforesaid, and … át the time of the seizure aforesaid, and alsoe all such other<br />
Negroes as with the residue of the said Outward Cargoe would or<br />
might have beene procured, if the said seizure had not intervened,<br />
might have beene sold and disposed of and for at Virginia, and<br />
the Barbadoes, and the like hee verily beleeveth of the said 160<br />
Negroes, which hee deponent credibly was in formed were laden<br />
putt aboard and seized in the said shipp the ''Sarah''. And further<br />
to this Article hee cannot depose./
To the 9th. Article hee saith, That hee cannot of his knowledge depose<br />
any thing to or upon the Contents of this Article further or otherwise than<br />
by hin us predeposed.
To the 10th. Article hee saith, That the said shipp ''Rappahannacke'' at<br />
the time of her setting forth from England upon the Voiage aforesaid,<br />
being a shipp of the burthen of two hundred tunn and upwards, and<br />
carrying eight peeces of ordnance and every way well fitted and<br />
furnished with tackle and furniture fitting for such an undertakeing; and having sufficient store of<br />
good provisions both for her Companie and for the Negroes to bee put on board<br />
her was in this deponents judgement and estimate worth about two<br />
thousand pounds Lawfull money of England, And further this deponent<br />
cannot depose:-
To the 11th hee saith, That after this deponent and severall of the Companie<br />
of the said shipp ''Rappahannacke'' had bin under restraint in the<br />
said Scrolls shipp for about the space of five weekes, the said surprizers<br />
redelivered the said shipp ''Sarah'' to the Master and Companie thereof<br />
and to the Master and Companie of the said shipp ''Rappahannacke''<br />
and to the Companies of two other English shipps which the said Scroll<br />
and Confederates had alsoe taken, leaving them very slender and<br />
very badd provisions not sufficient for twenty men for the space of<br />
five weekes, whereas there were about threescore persons putt on<br />
board and a tedious voyage of two moneths at the least to be expected<br />
to the Barbadoes, being the neerest place under the power of the<br />
English that they could come to, soe that they were necessitated to<br />
putt in to the Island of Saint Thomas, and there to sell or exchange the<br />
said shipp ''Sarah'' for another small shipp and provisions necessarie to carry<br />
and keepe them alive to the Barbadoes aforesaid thense to gett<br />
passage gome for England, and that if they had not soe done, they must<br />
have perished for want of Victualls, and by reason of the insufficiency<br />
of the sales and other of the said shipps appurtenances alltogether<br />
unfitting for such a voiage. The premisses hee saith hee well knoweth<br />
by the like sadd and calamitous experience. And further cannot<br />
depose./
To the 12th hee saith hee verily beleeveth, That the said John<br />
Jeffereys and Thomas Colclough and Companie by meanes of the Losse of the<br />
said shipp and of her tackle and furniture Negroes and lading<br />
as aforesaid have suffered very great losse, and dammage over<br />
and besides their principall, by the summe or valew of about six orall, by the summe or valew of about six or +
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