Difference between revisions of "HCA 13/71 f.443v Annotate"

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1. Company the providence to keepe the shipp Providence to the windeward
2. which this deponent and company did, but seeing and observing that the sayd
3. Lee and Company did notwith standing it appeared they well understood
4. signes made unto them, not beare up but hold on their course with the shipp
5. Samuell by which mianes they (unlesse some tymely course were taken to
6. prevent the same the shipp Samuell would undoubtedly come fowle of
7. Providence) this deponent and Company of the Providence to prevent as much
8. as in them lay any mischcife which might ensue upon the Samuells holding
9. on her course and not bearing up as desyred) did put the providence on the
10. stayes and turned her out of the Samuell course, and called to the
11. sayd Lee and his Company of the Samuell to doe the like in regard they
12. did not beare up as they were before desyred and told them that if they did
13. not either beare up with their shipp Samuell or put her on the stayes shott
14.
15. would unavoidably fall fowle of the providence, all which the sayd
16. and Company of the Samuell might (and did as hee beleeveth) very well heare
17. and observe, but tooke noe care either to beare up with the Samuell or
18. with her upon the stayes but kept on their direct course with her and by
19. that mianes with full sayles did in a carelesse and willfull manner
20. turne the steme of the Samuell right upon the midshipp of the providence
21. and thereby the sayd shipp Providense and her ladeing of coales
22. were utterley lost and perished in the sea and partially obscured by ink ˹her company hath likewise perished but hath they˺ for the savegard
23. of their lives seeing her xxxx sunke soo deepe he water came
24. into the mens cabbins in the gunne roome ˹notwithstanding they used their utmost endeavour labouring with two pumpes to keep her above sea˺ made a shift to runne
25. her a shoare soe as to save their lives though they could not preserve
26. sayd shipp Providence and her ladeing All which had bwith easi bin present
27. and the Providence and her ladeing had not perished if the sayd Lee and
28. Company of the Samuell had borne up with their sayd shipp or brought
29. her on the stayes as were by this deponent and company desired
30. and advised to doo, and might very easily have done if they had pleased
31. soo that the sayd lesse and dammage came of this deponents knowledge
32. meerely by the fault of the sayd Lee and company and through <TO DO: todo>thier
33. either willfull or negligent guideing and order f their sayd
34. shipp the Samuell And further to those actes hee cannot depose/

35. To the 7th article of the sayd libell hee saith that the shipp the providence
36. at the tyme shee and her ladeing of coales were or himselfe ˹which was upon or 37. new shipp it being her second voyage that ever shee had made, and was
38. about sixty foote longe in the Keele and twenty foote wide and X all her
39. tackle apparrell and furniture very good, and in this deponents Judgement
40. shee and her ladeing of Coales were at they tyme aforesayd very well
41. worth seaven hundred and fifty pounds sterling and better and so much
42. they would have yeiled if they had not bin soe suncke as aforesayd the
43. premisses hee deposeth of his owne sight and knowledge being master of her as
44. aforesayd And further cannot depose/

45. To the 8th hee saith that the arlate Lawe, Cooper and company beside
46. the losse of the sayd shipp the providence and her ladeing of Coales are
47. otherwise dammified to the value of one hundred pounds sterling and
48. more for want of the sayd shipp to use in their merchandizing imployment
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