HCA 13/73 f.493r Annotate

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Colors put up, and under those Colors shee fired a broad
side at and upon the Starr, and her Ketch which shee had in
her Company fired alsoe a Gunne or two at the Starr, which hee
saith was done without any occasion given, and the said [?ffiring]
hee saith did much Damage to the said ships Sailes Rigging
and tackle, and her Companyes lives were in great Danger.
and the said company of the Alexander threatning to sinke
the Starr if the Master did not come on board the Alexander
the said Sprittiman was forced to leave his Ship, and
goe onboard the Alexander which hee saith hee did, with four
or five more of his Company. The promisses hee deposeth
of Sight and Knoweledge being on board the said Ship Starre
the said time, this Deponent being then one of her Companion
And further cannot depose./:

To the 3rd. hee saith that presently after the said Thomas
Sprittiman was soe gone on board the Alexander the
Alexanders boate and the Starrs boate brought about sixteene
or seaventeene men on board the Starr, and Carried
all the Starrs Company on board the Alexander, saving this
Deponent and three others, and Saith that the Alexanders men
and the Ketches men which soe came on board the Starre
did breake open the Starrs Hatches that night
and drunke as much as they could insomuch that some
of them were very much overtaken with Drinking the same.
and in the night hee saith they filled a rundlet or two, and
put the same into the Ketch in the nighttime, and the next
morning hee saith that they filled all the Rundletts
Jarrs and empty vessells which they could finde in the Starr
and in the Alexander and Ketch, and carryed the same onboard
the Alexander and the Ketch, and saith that they tooke out
alsoe two whole Pipes, and two Hogsheads of wine out of
the said ships Hold, and carried the same into the Alexander
and Ketch, and they alsoe tooke away out of the said ship
a Turky Cutlasse belonging to the Master a White Pot with a
Great Silver Cover, Pannes, Spoones, Table Cloaths and Many
of the Cloaths belonging to the seamen, and saith that in the
said night they sailed the said ship back about
sixteene or seaventeene Leages. and saith hee knoweth not what
discourse passed betweene the said Sprittiman and the Captaine
of the Alexander onboard the Alexander, for that hee went
not onboard the Alexander, but saith that the said
Sprittiman, and the Captaine of the Alexander and two men
with him came onboard the Starr in the said morning in which the
wine as aforesaid was soe sent and Carryed away, then they
then