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To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
… To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith hee this deponent in companie with<br />
his brother aforesaid and another of his brothers named Joris Johnson<br />
living in Amsterdam hath a one and fourtieth part of the [?shipp]<br />
''Nicholas'' aforesaid (being devided into an hundred two and fourtie<br />
parts) belonging unto him, and the like share in the goods predeposed<br />
belonging to the owners laden aboard the said shipp, And saith the<br />
rest of the owners with their shares and parts in the said shipp and<br />
the said goods of the owners are as followeth, videlicet hartia Johnson<br />
owner of a fifteenth and a quarter part (of 142 parts) of the said<br />
shipp and lading of the owners. Peter Poulla nyneteene parts<br />
William Johnson van Magran three parts and seaven eighth parts<br />
Albert [?Verimenten] the like, Bartle Barentson Weymar the like<br />
Timon Cornelison Punt the like, Alwin hendrickson two and a<br />
halfe parts; Peter Jacobson one part and Jeronimo da Busse tenn<br />
and three quarter parts, All which persons hee saith are [Burgers]<br />
of Amsterdam and natives (as hee beleeveth) of that place, and that<br />
the widowe and heires of daniel Brands of hamburgh have<br />
one and thirtie{th} parts or shares in the said shipp and said lad[ing]<br />
of the owners being as aforesaid devided into an hundred two and<br />
fourtie parts, and saith they were all owners at the time of the said<br />
seizure, daniel Brands<br />
himselfe who was liveing when the shipp was bought, being then dead.
To the second hee saith that his said brother Claes Johnson was<br />
commander and this deponent master of the said shipp ''Nicholas''<br />
when shee was seized, and was then aboard her. And saith hee<br />
never knew the said shipp before hee as aforesaid met her at<br />
Cadiz and bought her of Vice Admirall de Ruyter, And referreth<br />
himselfe to his foregoeing deposition, saying there was noe skipper in or<br />
of her when hee soe bought her, shee being a prize taken from the<br />
Turkes as aforesaid.
To the third hee saith hee came first aboard the ''Yellow Sun'' interrogate at<br />
Amsterdam and there his said brother came alsoe first aboard the<br />
shipp the [?''Eagle''] interrogate, of which shipps they were respectively masters<br />
as aforesaid, and in company sailed together out the<br />
Texel for A[?rdre] on the coast of Guiney where they traffiqued<br />
and tooke in their Negro's predeposed, and touched or stopped at noe<br />
port by the way but only at Sierra Leona, where they went<br />
in for water and wood. And from Ardre departing as aforesaid<br />
for Martinica or Saint Christofers or other free place as aforesaid<br />
they touched at Margarita for water and refreshing but getting<br />
none they went to Comana[?s] on the terra ferma to get some, but<br />
could gett none, whereupon they went to nowa Barcelona where<br />
they got some, and thence to the Caracas where they got a little<br />
more, and some deale boards and plancs to mend their shipps,<br />
thence to Corsow a dutch Iland to carreen, but finding<br />
noe convenience stood off againe, and the next place they came<br />
at was Santa domingo as aforesaid being as aforesaid forced in<br />
by stresse of weather, and partly through want of victualls.
To the fourth hee saith hee was never at Martinica or Saint<br />
Christofers, but his brother Claes Johnson hath bin at Martinica<br />
and saith that according to the card they live an hundred leagues<br />
and upwards to windward of Santa domingo, and nearer<br />
to Guiney than Santa domingo, but the said two shipps being [?constrained]<br />
to goe upon the coast of the terra firma of West India for water and victualls as<br />
aforesaider and victualls as<br />
aforesaid +
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