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And further hee to this Article hee cannot … And further hee to this Article hee cannot of his owne knowledge depose<br />
further or otherwise, then that about six weekes after the said<br />
seizure, this deponent being as prisoner in and aboard the said shipp<br />
''Mary'' sawe the said shipp ''Rappahannacke'' in the power and<br />
possession of the said Scroll and others the Officers and Companies<br />
of the said two shipps, by when shee had alsoe beene in a violent<br />
and hostile manner surprized and taken togeather with the<br />
Negroes and goods aboard her at this deponent both then and since hath<br />
been sufficiently informed and assured./
To the 6th hee saith, That the said shipps by which the seizure aforesaid was<br />
made were dutch built shipps according to this deponents observation<br />
and at the time of the seizure of the said shipp ''Sarah'' wore the<br />
dutch colours and the said shipp ''Marie'' was belonging to Amsterdam<br />
and the other shipps to Middleborough in Zeeland; and were both<br />
of them sett out from the Texell of Amsterdam in holland with their<br />
respective Cargoes of goods and merchandises designed to trade for<br />
Negroes in the parts of Guinney, and that the Owners of the same<br />
were dutchmen and Subjects of the States of the United Netherlands<br />
and lived at Amsterdam and Middleborough or other places in the<br />
said provinces, and that the Steeresman of the said shipp the ''Mary'' did<br />
declare to this deponent that the said shipp ''Mary'' was at Amsterdam<br />
aforesaid expressely built to be employed under the Command of the<br />
said Scroll, whoe came Master or her from thence The premisses<br />
hee knoweth partly by ocular observation, and partly by the frequent<br />
acknowledgment of severall of the Companie of the said shipp ''Mary''<br />
during such time as this deponent was and remained prisoner aboard<br />
her: And further cannot depose:-/
To the seaventh Article hee saith, That this deponent during his said<br />
restraint did alsoe understand by the confession and acknowledgement of<br />
severall of the said shipps Companie, and particularly of the said<br />
Steeresman, that the said Scroll was a hollander, and a Native of and inhabitant of or<br />
about Monickendam in that Countrey, as this deponent remembereth the<br />
name of the place, and that one Claes Prince who was Merchant<br />
in and aboard the said dutch shipps was by the like common relation<br />
said to bee of Huesden in the said United Provinces, and that the said<br />
Steeresmen, Gunners, Carpenters, Chirurgions and all or most<br />
of the said shipps Companie were and acknowledged themselves to<br />
bee of holland or Zeeland and Subjects of the said United provinces<br />
And further to this article hee cannot depose
To the eighth hee saith, that hee this deponent with others of the<br />
Companie of the said seized shipps after their [?dismission] from their<br />
said restraint coming to the Barbadoes arlate in the moneth of<br />
december last there saw and observed that severall Negroes being<br />
there newly arrived were readily bartered away and diposed<br />
of for at the least five and twenty hundred weight of sugar forive and twenty hundred weight of sugar for +
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