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to sea, each of them with a Cargo of goods … to sea, each of them with a Cargo of goods to trade at Guiney for the<br />
Negroes, and particularly that one Vangergoes of Zeeland was a<br />
principall Owner and imployer of the said shipp the ''Unicorne'', and<br />
was alsoe interessed in the other shipp the ''Mary'', and that the said mr<br />
Vandergoes and others the Owners of the said shipps the ''Mary'' and<br />
''Unicorne'' were dutchmen and Subjects of the said States of the<br />
United Netherlands Provinces, All which the premisses this deponent<br />
saith hee hath understood and been very credibly informed of partly<br />
before the seizure of the said shipp the ''Rappahannack'', and that by<br />
one Lucas Garrets Master of a shipp or flute belonging to holland<br />
then trading in those part, with whom this deponent mett at Sea about sixe<br />
dayes before the seizure of the said shipp ''Rappahannack'' of whom this<br />
deponent asking whether there were any men of warr upon that Coast, hee<br />
answered noe, but that there were some dutch merchant shipps,<br />
and that hee know where their Owners and Imployers lived, as well as<br />
hee know where his owne Owners lived, and that if hee were in<br />
Amsterdam, hee could presently goe to their or severall of their houses and<br />
habitations in that place, and moreover that the said shipps were not<br />
Spanish, nor did belong to Spaniards, and that therefore hee did not<br />
feare them under any such notion, And partly for that the said<br />
Commander John Scroll and the Gunner of the said shipp the<br />
''Unicorne'' (this deponent the said Seizure being brought on board her<br />
and there continueing a prisoner for about 6. weekes after) did<br />
severall times declare in the hearing of this deponent that the said shipps<br />
were sett out, as aforesaid, by the said Vandergoes and others Subjects<br />
of the States of the said United Provinces, and saith that both the<br />
said Scroll and one Claes or Nicholas Prince Merchant or<br />
Supra Cargo of the said Shipp ''Marie'' did aboard the said shipp<br />
''Unicorne'' declare to this deponent that they had in and aboard the<br />
said shipps a Cargaison for the procuring of two Thousand<br />
ffive hundred Negroes to be transported to Carthagena in the<br />
West Indies there to be disposed of and sold for the use of accompt<br />
of such their dutch Proprietors And further saith, That soe long as<br />
this deponent continued a prisoner in and aboard the said shipp ''Unicorne'',<br />
hee well observed that all or the most part of their shipps Victualls<br />
and provisions consisted in [?grott], horse-beanes and other provisions<br />
usually employed in shipps fitted a victualled from holland and the<br />
other united provinces, an that severall of the said shipps Companie<br />
then confessed, that the provisions of beef, and sundry tunns of<br />
water which they then had aboard the said shipps had beene by them<br />
taken in, in the said united Netherlands, or words and expressions<br />
to that or the like effect. Hee further saith, That hee this deponent Hee further saith, That hee this deponent +
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