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<header>
<series>HCA 13/70</series>
<folio>f.709r</folio>
<picture>IMG_1033</picture>
<summary></summary>
<document-date></document-date>
<document-date>First cut transcription started and completed on 27/01/2015 by Colin Greenstreet</document-date>
<first-transcriber>Colin Greenstreet</first-transcriber>
</header>

42.

Sampson

The 24th of September
1653/. [CENTRE HEADING]

The keepers of the libertie of England by authoritie of}
Parliament against a certaine shipp named the Sampson}
whereof Otto George was commander, and the silver and other}
goods in the same, seized by the shipps of this Commonwealth in}
the immediate service thereof. Budd. ffrancklin, Smith.}

Examined upon the
allegation given in by
Mr Budd on the
behalfe of the State the
20th instant.

.jus.

Abraham Johnson of the precinct of Saint Catherins
neere the tower of London Sailemaker, aged 35
yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined.

To the seaventh article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that hee
well knoweth the shipp the Sampson arlate and hath soe donne for theise eight or nine yeares last
past, during which space shee hath begun and made all her voyages
from Amsterdam, and returned thither and ended the same there, and saith
that for all the said time the said shipp the Sampson hath bin accompted
and reputed to belonge to Amsterdam, which hee knoweth to be true, because
hee this deponent for all the said time ended in September 1652 lived and was a saile maker in
Amsterdam and sawe such comming in and going thence of the said shipp.
And further saith that the said shipp began
this her last voyage from the said citie and port of Amsterdam in the
yeare 1649, and that at and before that time and since one Peter Eleson
residing in Amsterdam was a part owner and proprietor of the said shipp
and unto him as a part owner thereof the said Otto George hath at Amsterdam
severall times accompted for the freight which the said shipp had earned of
this deponents sight and knowledge, being often present at the said accompting at the house of
the said Peter Eleson, who then kept an ordinary at the signe of the Redd post horne
at the sea dike, and for a part owner of the said shipp the Sampson the
said Peter Eleson hath bin for all the time aforesaid
commonly accompted and reputed./.