HCA 13/68 f.374v Annotate
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Wm Warren [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 29th of November 1653./
Joson against Read and Wilson for their}
Interest in the Golden Lyon Smith Budd}
Examined upon an allegation [?XXXX] on the behalfe of
the sayd [?Read] and Wilson./
Ius
James Wilson of Wapping in the County of Middlesex
Mariner Masters [?second] Mate of the shipp the Charles (whereof
the sayd Thomas Wilson is Master) aged 36 or thereabouts
sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth
videlicet/
To the first and second articles of the sayd allegation hee saith and deposeth
that the shipp the Golden Lyon arlate was seized and taken on a [?XXXX]
happening in the moneth of ffebruary 1651 English style in a River
in Virginia called James River and neere a place there called
[?Pagan] Creeke, which River Ebbeth and floweth and is within the dominions
of the Commonwealth of England there, the premisses hee knoweth, being
Masters second Mate of [and XXXXX] the shipp the Charles which shipp was one of the three
shipps which tooke and seized the sayd shipp the Golden Lyon, and he this
deponent did assiste in the takeing and seizeing thereof And further to
these articles hee cannot depose/
To the third and 4th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith and deposeth
that hee being Masters second Mate of the Charles aforesayd and present and Privie
to the agreement by him this deponent now deposed of well knoweth that
before the seizure aforesayd of the sayd Shipp the Golden Lyon, the arlate
Nathaniel Joson Captaine [XXXX XXXX] of the William and John, Abraham R[XXXX] Commander
of the shipp the Seaven Sisters arlate, and the arlate Thomas Wilson
Commander of the Shipp the Charles arlate, having arrived all in safety
at Virginia aforesayd and having all Commissions by authority of
Parliament to seize all shipps and goods whatsoever which they should
then finde tradeing at Virginia, did enter into mutuall agreement
each with other to assiste each other in the surprizeing of all such [?XXX]
as they were by their sayd Commissions authorized to surprize, And
did alsoe at the same tyme agree each with other that they would
proportionally share and divide amongst them the sayd J[X]sson [?Read] and Wilson
and their severall Mariners and SEamen of their severall companyes
all