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Plantation) to take in goods wich they had … Plantation) to take in goods wich they had left there in a storehouse, and<br />
then this shipp (speaking of the said shipp the ''Golden Parrot''), was<br />
comming after them to take in the said goods out of the sloope, which<br />
goods (as they alsoe acknowledged) belonged to the Merchant and<br />
company of the said shipp, all dutch men. And saith that the next<br />
day this deponent and company espying the said shipp in the offing,<br />
weighed and made saile after her, and comming up with her this<br />
deponent commanded the master aboard the frigot, who comming, and being<br />
examined by this deponent, confessed then his shipp was named<br />
the ''Golden Poppagay'' or ''Parrot'', and belonged to fflushing, to<br />
dutch men there, and then hee then came from Eustacia, Saint Christofors<br />
Backstarr, and Nevis and then hee had bin in the English plantations in Saint<br />
Christofors and Nevis, and was then going to Montserrat an English plantation, to take<br />
in goods out of a Storehouse there, and thence was to goe to Guadeloup<br />
and thence back to Nevis, Saint Christofors and Eustacias to<br />
finish his lading; whereupon this deponent told him that hee<br />
would be made prize for trading on the English plantations, to which<br />
hee answered it was more than hee knew, for when hee came out<br />
of fflushing, his masters (speaking of his owners or Imployers)<br />
said nothing to the contrary but then hee might trade there, there having<br />
other shipps come out before him from fflushing bound for the Barbada's and other<br />
the Charibbe Ilands, and therefore hee thought it was free to trade<br />
in the English plantations in th[?o]se parts there being peace between<br />
England and holland, and said withall, this is the third shipp I<br />
have lost, my Masters will never imploy mee again. And further<br />
saith that shortly after this deponent coming with the said frigot and prize<br />
left Christofors Iland, there came aboard the said shipp the ''Golden''<br />
''Parrot'' (riding in the old Roade of Saint Christofors upon the English plantation)<br />
one Mr Thomas dawson an English planter there living, to demand<br />
goods out of the said shipp the ''Parrot'', which hee said were sent to him<br />
from fflushing, and that the said dawson making the said goods appeare<br />
to be his, and getting an order from the English Commissioners there<br />
for receiving the said goods, this deponent delivered them to him according<br />
to the said order; And further saith then the English Inhabitants<br />
in the said Iland of Saint Christofors declared unto and told this<br />
deponent that the said shipp the ''Golden parrot'' before this<br />
deponents meeting with her, had bin at the Sandepoint in the<br />
English Plantation there, and had taken in a greate deale of tobacco then<br />
from the English there. Moreover this deponent asking the said<br />
master (John danielson) why hee had not brought an order from the<br />
States of Holland, prohibiting him to trade in the English plantations<br />
as well as [?harman drougt] had donne, hee answered that if<br />
hee had knowne that hee would not trade at the English Plantations<br />
hee would have gotten the same order. And lastly saith that at the<br />
time of the said seizure the said shipp had aboard sugar, tobaccoe,<br />
and ginger of the growth and make of the West Indies,<br />
and a caske of Indico which her company confessed to have received<br />
in the English Plantation at Saint Christofors, and for the reasons<br />
aforesaid the said shipp was good prize to the English, trading<br />
contrary to the Act. And otherwise he cannot depose.
Repeated before Cock./
Jno [?S] Clark[?e] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]/
Jno [?S] Clark[?e] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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