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Transcription

The 30th of July 1660./:

Examined upon the said Allegation./.

Thomas Andrews of Ratcliffe Mariner
aged 44 yeeres or thereabouts. Sworne and
Examined./:

[?pd] Rp

5us

To the 1st and 2nd articles of the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth that
in the months of November and December 1659 there were laden
on board the arlate ship the Thomas and Anne Christopher
Eveling Master in Virginia by order of the arlate ffrancis
Wheeler deceased, and for and upon his [?accounpt] as this
deponent verily beleeveth thirty and one hogsheads or thereabouts
of Virginia Tobaccoes to be brought over in the said ship
from Virginia to this Port, and saith that ffrancis Wheeler
the producent did here in England before the said Ship went
home on the said Voyage take tonnage in her for the
said Tobaccoes. and saith that the said Wheeler deceased did
likewise in Virginia the said Time lade other Tobaccoes
onboard the arlate Ship Honor Robert Thomas Master and
intended to come in her for England and this Deponent
often sawe him goe onboard her, and hee saith hee alsoe several
times came onboard the Thomas and Anne to see that
his tobaccoe was fetcht from shore and to see that it
was stowed safe. The Promisses hee deposeth goeing
all the said Voyages Steward and Quartermaster of the
said ship Thomas and Anne, and helped to take some
of the said Tobaccoes onboard the said ship; And further
cannot depose./:

To the third and 4th. hee saith that on or about the last of December
1659 the said Wheeler departed this life, and left a widow
behind him, who was mother in Lawe to the said Francis
Wheeler the product. and saith that hee hath credibly
heard from the Mate of the said ship Thomas and Anne
and others of her Company that noe bills of Lading
were given to the said Francis Wheeler before his
death for the said Tobaccoe laden onboard her but that one Mr Nicholas Trott got bills of Lading
for the same. And saith that before the said ffrancis Wheeler
thelder went home to Virginia (as this deponent hath bin
Credibly informed) hee made his will and made his said Son his
Executor and to the rest hee referreth himselfe to the registry
of the Prerogative Court, and further cannot depose./.

To the 5th. hee cannot depose./.

To the 6th. hee saith that hee hath heard that the widowe
of the said Wheeler deceased is alsoe dead. And saith that
shee and this deponent meeting together at a ffunerall in Virginia
about a month after her Husband died, and then having discoursed
together and this deponent asking her; if her husband made any will