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To the third Article hee saith. that in or … To the third Article hee saith. that in or about the moneth of January<br />
<u>1655</u>. English style, the arlate Robert Lewellin having hyred and called<br />
to freight the said shipp the ''Sarah'' upon the Voiage aforesaid, did at<br />
this Port of London lade and putt on board her a Cargoe of goods<br />
wares and merchandise consisting in Copper barres, iron, and [?bowdges]<br />
to bee transported in the said shipp to Guinney aforesaid, and<br />
there to be bartered away and disposed of for Negroes to be thence<br />
in the said shipp carried and conveighed to Barbadoes or Virginia<br />
there to bee sould and disposed of for the proper accompt and benefitt<br />
of the said Robert Lewellin, and saith the said shipp the ''Sarah'' [?with GUTTER]<br />
the said outwards Cargoe of goods did upon the first Day of May<br />
1656. safely arrive and came to an anchor neere the said Coast of Guinney<br />
The premisses hee [this] deponent well knoweth being Purser of the said shipp<br />
and sayleing in her the whole voiage aforesaid./
To the 4th hee saith, That after the arrivall of the sayd shipp ''Sarah''<br />
at or neere the said Coast of Guinney, the said Arthur Perkins<br />
Master thereof in quality of Master and ffactor for the said voiage<br />
did there traffique and barter way the greatest part of the said<br />
Outwards Cargoe, and did therewith gaine and procure the full<br />
number of the one hundred fifty and eight Negroes, and was in [?quiet GUTTER]<br />
and peaceable possession of the same upon the high Sea neere<br />
Cape de Lopes upon the Coast aforesaid and was ready to proceed<br />
with the same from thence upon his said voiage towards Barbadoes<br />
or Viriginia, there to dispose of the said Negroes according to the<br />
order and for the best advantage of his said imployer. Which the<br />
premisses this deponent saith hee very well knoweth for and upon the<br />
grounds of knowledge predeposed, And further cannot depose,
To the 5th Article of the said Allegation hee saith, that in the moneth of<br />
August and particularly upon the second day of the same moneth in the<br />
yeare <u>1656</u>: the said shipp the ''Sarah'' being at an anchor neere<br />
Cape de Lopes aforesaid in a quiett and peaceable Condition<br />
Two Dutch shipps nearing the dutch Colonies one of them being<br />
called the ''Mary'' of Amsterdam, and the other, (whose name hee now<br />
remembreth not) being said to bee of Middelborough in Zeeland<br />
both under the Command of John Scroll a Dutchman of the United<br />
Provinces, did in a violent and hostile manner invade surprize and<br />
seize the said shipp the ''Sarah'' togeather with her tackle apparrell<br />
furniture and lading of Negroes and other goods and tooke out the<br />
Master and most of the said shipps Companie out of the same<br />
and disposed of them aboard the said dutch shipps, and utterly<br />
dispoyled and deprived them or their said shipps, lading and<br />
appurtenances. The premisses hee knoweth for the reason aforesaydisses hee knoweth for the reason aforesayd +
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