| First transcribed
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1 May 2013 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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| Folio
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186 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/72 +
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Verso +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 01/05/2013
[[Category:Occupation Carpenter]] +
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| Transcription
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The 23th day of November 1657
John Jeffer … The 23th day of November 1657
John Jefferies and Robert Lewellin against Jacob}<br />
Moulson Smith ffrancklin}
Examined upon an allegation on behalfe of the sayd<br />
Moulson./
'''3us'''
'''vide the 2 first in A9:'''
'''Abraham Clarke''' of debtford in Kent shipwright<br />
Carpenter of the shipp ''Unitie'' the voyage in question aged<br />
twenty five yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne<br />
and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith hee was not privie to<br />
the contract made betweene the arlate Jefferies, Lewellin Smith Roberts<br />
and Moulson touching the voyage in question and therefore cannot depose<br />
to the contents of the sayd article further then that hee saith the sayd Moulson<br />
was Commonly reputed to bee a part Owner of the arlate shipp the ''Unitie''<br />
And further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the 2 and 3 articles hee saith hee this deponent being Carpenter and on board<br />
the sayd shipp the sayd voyage knoweth that there was beefe and other provisions of victualls for<br />
the voyage in question put on board the sayd shipp ''Unitie'' in England and some in<br />
Ireland but the quantitie thereof or upon whose Accompt the same was put<br />
on board hee knoweth not And further to those articles hee cannot depose/
To the 4th and 5th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this deponent<br />
being Carpenter as a foresayd and aboard the shipp ''Unitie'' knoweth that shee<br />
departed from Gravesend upon the voyage in question in the moneth of June<br />
one thousand sixe hundred fifty fower and about the sixteenth say thereof<br />
and after such her departure the sayd shipp mett with contrarie windes which hindred<br />
her soe that it was about the latter end of July or beginning of August<br />
that yeare ere shee arrived in dublin haven And further hee cannot depose<br />
knowing of nothing of of any such promise as is arlate, but knoweth that the sayd<br />
shipp went to Ireland on purpose to take in servants for Accompt of the<br />
arlate Jefferies and Lewellin to be thence transported to Virginia./
To the 6th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that at the arrivall of<br />
the sayd shipp ''Unitie'' in dublin harbour there were very few or noe servants<br />
provided by the sayd Jefferies and Lewellin or their factors or Agents there<br />
to be shipped aboard her for Accompt of the sayd Lewellin and Jefferyes to<br />
goe the voyage in question, And this deponent knoweth that thereupon the<br />
sayd Moulson did imploye a Joyner who lived at dublin (his name this<br />
deponent now remembreth not) to gett servants to goe the sayd voyage for<br />
Accompt of the sayd Jefferyes and Lewellin and by that meanes did<br />
procure divers servants for the sayd Jefferyes and Lewellins Accompt but<br />
the certayne number soe procured by the meanes and endeavour of the sayd<br />
Moulson and the person hee imployed thereabout hee remembreth not, but<br />
three and fiftie persons men and women two men of which [XXXX GUTTER]<br />
did of this deponents knowledge runne away and carried with them the shipps skiff while shee<br />
continued in dublin haven, and an other (a woman) was suspected by the<br />
whole shipps Company to bee a witch for that shee had given out words amongst<br />
the passengers servants who were to goe the sayd voyage that rather then shee<br />
would goe the sayd voyage the shipp should never departe from dublin soe<br />
longe as there was a whole block remayning in her or words to that effect<br />
and saith that the sayd shipp of this deponents knowledge did once endeavour to<br />
goeedge did once endeavour to<br />
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