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Amsterdam, and that shee carried in her th … Amsterdam, and that shee carried in her the said voyage to the Barbadas<br />
beere, wine, iron, oile, stockfish and other goods proper for that trade<br />
some whereof were belonging to the said owners, and the rest to others<br />
as hee was informed, And further hee cannot depose.
To the third and fourth Interrogatories hee saith that the said<br />
shipp had an English passe for the said voyage grannted by the<br />
authoritie of England, and that the said shipp having delivered<br />
her said outward cargo in the roade of the Barbadas, and lying<br />
there taking in of sugars and cottons for her homewards voyage<br />
shee was on or about the tenth of ffebruary last (old stile) seized by the<br />
''Marston Moore frigot'' in the immediate service of this<br />
Commonwealth, with such sugars and cottons as shee had received<br />
aboard being in his estimation fiftie tonnes of sugars and foure<br />
and fortie baggs of cotton; and saith his contest Jacob derrickss[?on]<br />
Wil[?rey] master of the said shipp the ''John Baptiste'' showed the said English<br />
passe to the Lieutenant of the said frigot in this deponents<br />
sight when the said seizure was made, the premisses hee knoweth<br />
being then stiersman of the said shipp the ''John Baptist[?a]'', and<br />
seeing the premisses soe donne. And further hee cannot depose.
To the fifth and 6th hee saith that the Captaine of the said frigot<br />
seizing the said shipp the ''John Baptista'', turned her master and companie<br />
ashore at the Barbadas, and carried away the said shipp ''John Baptista''<br />
and her said sugars and cotton for Jamaica, and soe the owners<br />
were deprived of the said shipp and goods, and the master and companie<br />
put to shift for them selves, which hee knoweth for the reasons<br />
aforesaid, referring himselfe to his foregeoing deposition. And<br />
further hee cannot depose.
Repeated before Collonel Cock.
Jan Pieter [X]oon Ver wer [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
'''Rp. 2.'''
'''Jacob Derricksson Wilrey''' of Wapping but<br />
living most frequently at Amsterdam Mariner, aged<br />
24 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and examined as<br />
aforesaid.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that hee<br />
well knoweth the shipp the ''John Baptista'' of London interrogated, and<br />
hath soe done for eleaven monethes last or thereabouts, and<br />
well knoweth that the producents Major George Walters,William<br />
Eaton, ffrancis Walter, daniel Arthur, Marke Ri[XX], ffrancis<br />
Creagh and Lancelot Stepney all subiects of this Commonwealth<br />
of England were and are her owners and proprietors, yeelding<br />
a reason of such his knowledge for that hee this deponent hath<br />
for the said time bin master of the said shipp untill her seizure hereafter mentioned and was<br />
constituted master of her by their order, and saith the said Eaton<br />
and Arthur dwell in this citie, and the said Ri[XX] at the<br />
Barbada's and the rest of the said owners dwell in Ireland.
To the second hee saith that the said shipp in her last voyage wasthat the said shipp in her last voyage was +
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