| First transcribed
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8 January 2015 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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| Folio
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292 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/70 +
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| Side
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Verso +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 08/01/2015 +
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| Transcription
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To the second article of the sayd allegati … To the second article of the sayd allegation this deponent saith that upon<br />
the tenth day of June 1654 or thereabouts the sayd Thomas Smith and this<br />
deponent arrived safely in the shipp the ''hopewell'' at Boston in New England and on the<br />
same day of their arrivall there the sayd Thomas Smith and this deponent and James Ga[?rrett]<br />
the Commander of the ''hopewell'' did all three of them togeather repayre unto the arlate<br />
Robert Sedgwick and John Leverett and then and there the sayd Thomas Smith delivered<br />
to the sayd Robert Sedgwick a letter directed to the saud Sedwick and John Leavrett sent from the arlate Arnold and Elias Beake<br />
and Company (which letter this deponent hath read and perused)<br />
wherein the sayd Arnold and Elias Beake and Company did certifie the sayd Sedgewick<br />
and Leveret touching their propriety in the sayd shipp ''Saint John Baptiste'' and her ladeing<br />
and that they had sent the bearer thereof (videlicet Thomas Smith aforesayd) to give them the<br />
sayd Sedgewick and Leveret notice thereof, and to demande restitution<br />
of the sayd shipp and goods in their names, or to that effect And the sayd Thomas Smith<br />
did accordingly in the presence of this deponent and the sayd James Garrett<br />
shew unto the sayd Sedgewick and Leveret the coppees of the fepositions, and affidavitts<br />
attested as aforesayd and the sayde Sedgewick and Leveret did read and peruse the<br />
same and they having soe read and perused them the sayd Smith alsoe shewed them<br />
the sayd Sedgewick and Leveret his authority grannted unto him from the sayd Arnold<br />
and Elias Beake and Company for makeing demands of the says shipp and her ladeing<br />
and did according to his sayd authority demand of the sayd Sedgewick and Leveret<br />
that they would surrender and deliver up the sayd shipp ''Saint John Baptist'' and her lading<br />
by them seized to him the sayd Smith for the use of the sayd Beakes and Company<br />
that hee the sayd Smith might make the best profitt hee could therof<br />
for the sayd Arnold and Elias Beake and Company and imploye the proceede of her and<br />
ladeing back againe to England to avoide damage therein as much as might be [?XXX] the said Smith well knowing (for that<br />
hee overtooke and sawe her at sea in his voyage to New England) that shee was not<br />
then arrived with her ladeing at New England) whereto they the sayd Sedgwick<br />
and Leveret replyed and sayd they would not deliver the same, but being further [?and other ?XXX]<br />
earnestly importuned in the presence of this deponent and the sayd Garrett before the arrivall of the sayd shipp and her ladeing at Boston in New England by the sayd Smith to the same effect as before<br />
and he declaring unto him that if they the sayd Sedewick and Leveret did persiste<br />
in their refusall the longer they deteyned the sayd shipp and her ladeing the greater<br />
damage would fall upon them the sayd Sedgewick and Leveret in the conclusion of<br />
the busines, they the sayd Sedgewick and Leveret then sayd they would take a tyme<br />
to consider of the sayd Smiths desyre and the examinations [?XXXXX] [?perused] as aforesayd and would give a speedy answere thereto or to that effect<br />
the premisses hee deposeth being an eye and eare witnes (togeather with the sayd<br />
Garrett) of the same And further saving his subsequent depositions hee<br />
cannot depose./
To the third article of the sayd allegation hee saith the shipp ''Saint John Baptist''<br />
arlate with her ladeing was mnot brought into the ort of Boston arlate when the<br />
demands aforesayd were made but was brought in thither by those entrusted with<br />
her by the sayd Sedgewick and Leveret upon the three and twentith day of June 1654<br />
or thereabouts before which tyme the sayd Smith had in the presence of this deponent<br />
and the sayd Garrett acquainted the sayd Sedgewick and Leveret with the interest of the<br />
sayd Arnold and Elias Beake and Company in the sayd shipp and goods and desyred restitution<br />
of them as aforesayd and the sayd Sedgewick and Leveret had<br />
returned answere as is predeposed And hee saith that upon the day after the sayd shipps<br />
arrivall at Boston ther sayd Smith did againe in the presence of this deponent (and as hee<br />
remembreth and beleeveth of the sayd Garrett) againe demande of the sayd Sedgewick and Leveret<br />
the
XXXSedgewick and Leveret<br />
the
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