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637) I heard she mett with badd weather as Edward Russell the skipper & some of Cap.t Phillips seamen said she was not fitt for service said boat road about nine or Tenn dayes there said Phillips had noe boat with the said vessell that I know of The sev.rall questions proposed by M.r Nicholas Lowe Ambros Kennimont upon his Oath answered as followes I know both Complt and Defd.t The five man boat was capable to have beene carryed to Choptanke river because she was loaded with salt and went safely w.th it to Kent The tyde falling when the five man boat was at my landing loaded I doe beleive she did touch upon the mudd but received noe damage that I know of I have heard that Edward Russell was a saylor and that James Stuard did formerly follow the sea the rest were land men The sayles that were then in her was not soe rotten but that they endured hoysting and sayleing two or three miles in my sight in good Easey weather but I heard that the wind splitt the fore saile when they came back from Kent I have heard that they mett with a small gust which splitt theire foresaile I doe not remember whether she was pumpd or not before she was loaded she was pumpd sev.rall tymes while she lay at my landing To the sev.rall questions proposed by M.r Nicholas Low James Stuard upon his oath answerd I doe know both Complt & Defendant I have heard that she never went to Choptank but rotted at Wye Towne I beleive she might be carryed to Kent Choptank because she carryed her loading to Kent She was on the ground at M.r Forbes landing and remained soe some part of the time she was unloading but I beleive she recd noe Damage because the place was muddy Edward Russell seemed to be a saylor but as for myselfe and the rest of us we know but little of the matter The sayles would hold hoisting but the fore saile splitt with a small |
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