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Transcription

To the 5th hee cannot depose./.

To the 6th hee saith that hee hath bin Credibly Informed
by severall that are lately come from Virginia that the
said Hellin or Ellinor is alsoe dead and further cannot
depose./.

To the 7th hee referreth himselfe to the registry of this Court./.

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./.

To the Interrogatories ./. [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first hee saith that hee favoreth the Partyes litigant
alike, and if it were in his power hee saith hee should give the
foresaid Tobaccoes to the said Francis Wheeler the Younger
if it were made appeare that hee is the Executor of his
ffathers will. And hee cometh at the request of the said
Frances Wheeler the producent without Compulsion,
and otherwise negatively./.

To the 2d It concerns him not./.

To the 3d hee saith that hee knoweth not what the said ffrancis Wheeler deceased
dyed possessed of, and further cannot Answer./.

To thee 4th hee saith that hee beleeveth that the Lawes in Verginia
in the matter in question are the same as they are
here in England. And otherwise cannot Answer./.

To the 4th hee saith that the foresaid Hellin or Ellinor Wheeler
was at Virginia the time Interrate, and saith that hee
doth beleeve that the said Hellin or Ellinor had not tooke
letters of [?Adjudication] of the goods of her said Husband before the
said Ships departure from thence, the Governor of Virginia dying
about ten or ffifteene dayes before the said Wheeler and
by reason thereof hee saith that there was noe Court
kept for that purpose from the said Governors Death
untill after the said Ships coming from thence; and
saith that the foresaid Nicholas Trott when hee came to this
deponent about Signing the foresaid bills hee told this deponent
that hee had an order of Court for taking the bills of
Lading, and alsoe said that hee had a bill of Sale
from the foresaid Hellin or Ellinor for the said Tobaccoe
but hee shewed neither of them to this Deponent. And
saith that hee doth not Knowe who runne the hazard of
Adventure of the said Tobaccoes and otherwise cannot
Answer./.

To the 7th hee saith
that hee Knoweth
not what to say in the matter interrate./.

Repeated before Doctor Masters./.

Robert Thomas [Signature, RH SIDE]