HCA 13/71 f.635v Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/71 |
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| Folio | 635 |
| Side | Verso |
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| First cut transcription completed on 04/02/13 by Alex Jackson; pasted into wikispot on 17/04/14 by Colin Greenstreet | |
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| Alex Jackson | |
| First transcribed | |
| 13/02/04 | |
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| Created 11/04/14, by CSG | |
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1. each Negroe the value of each hundred of sugar being then and
2. there ordinarily estimated at five and twenty shillings English
3. money, which in the whole amounted to above thirty pounds
4. sterling money for each Negroe, and soe much and after
5. rate this depo:nen˹t˺ is fully assured that the said hundred fifty and
6. eight Negroes laden and seized in the said shipp Sarah as
7. aforesaid, might and would really and readily have pieledeer.
8. p hcad, if the same had not beene so interrupted and seized by
9. the said Scroll and Companie, but had came to, arrived and beene
10. disposed of to the best advantage at the Barbadoes aforesaid; And
11. upon the grounds predeposed, this depo:nen˹t˺ is alsoe fully convinced and
12. assured of the like summe or value for the Negroes seized in the said
13. shipp Vappahauuacke. And further cannot depose
14. To the 9:th hee saith, That as the tiem of the suprizall of the said
15. shipp Sarah there alsoe was and remained on board her a
16. great quantity of Ciphauts teeth to the valew as hee verily
17. beleeveth to five hundred pounds sterling at the least, which
18. belonged to the said Lewellin, as being the proceed gined and
19. proceeded with part of his said outwards Cargoe, And saith
20. the Master and Companie of the said shipp Sarah, at the time
21. of the seizure aforesaid had cloathes, sea instruments, goods amd
22. other necessaries to them belonging, amounting in all as this depo:nen˹t˺
23. in conscience verily beleeveth, to the summe or value of one
24. thousand pounds sterling, And alsoe saith, that fower chore of
25. Copper barrs and one tunne of iron, and two barrells of bowdge
26. examining undisposed of at the time of the said seizure XXXXX XXXXX
27. XXXXX and belonging to the said Lewellin were really worth
28. Teo hundred pounds sterling money, all which the premisses
29. were at the time of the seizure aforesaid surprized and taken
30. away by the said Scroll and Companie, and the said Master and
31. Companie of the Sarah, and the said Lewellin were thereby utterly
32. Dispoyled and deprived thereof. Which the premisses here this
33. Depo:nen˹t˺ well knoweth by sad and suffering experience,
34. And further hee cannot depose
35. To the 10:th article hee saith that hee doeth in Conscience according
36. to the best of his judgement verily beleeveth the said shipp the
37. Sarah at the time of the seizure aforesaid to have beene really
38. worth eight hundred pounds sterling. (her tackle apparrell and
39. furniture being therein surprised) shee being a shipp of the burshen
40. of one hundred and twenty tunnes or thereabouts. carrying six
41. peeres of Ordanance, and having performed but XXXX voiages ˹li for this in question˺ since
42. her originall build˹ing˺ and being every way well accomodated for
43. such a voiage, And saith the mens wages for the said voiages
(the
