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England, and that the said Claiborne (as this deponent be-
leeveth) might have bought them cheaper if he had bought the
same goods att the first comming in of the said shipping, but
he referred it till the last shipps came in expectation of some
out of England as this deponent hath often heard the said
Claiborne say, and that therefore the apparell of every servant
did yearely cost the said Claiborne at leaste £5. 10s a peere.
Ad 15. dicit et deponit That by the said Claiborne's industry
and by the supplyes the said Claiborne procured the said
Plantation thrived very well, and that the interruption of the
Marylanders, theire killing of three men vizt. Leif Warren,
John Belson and William Dawson being kild in the Shallopp
the Cockatrice and theire takeing the Pinace Longtayle with
the truck and goods in the same whereby the Plantation
wanted Corne, and for the want of a Patent (as this deponent
beleeveth) the greatest cause of losse and damage to the Joynt-
stocke, and not by want of industry or care that the said Clai-
borne could use or procure for that to this deponent's owne
knowledge he the said Claiborne did take extraordinary care
and paynes therein, the want hereof is generally complained of.
Ad 17 dicit et deponit That all therein conteyned is true for
he hath been oftentymes a trading with the said Capt: Clai-
borne And one tyme especially himselfe and foure other men
in the Shallopp Start have beene sett on by 300 or 200 Indians
at Chaptanck like to be taken by them, unlesse God had
wonderfully delivered them.
Ad 28 dicit et deponit That the said Evelin sold and
delivered to the Governor of Maryland in this deponent's sight
severall peeces of Dutch trading Cloath but what he received
therefore this deponent knoweth not and further deposeth not.
Ad 29. dicit et deponit That the said Evelin did goe several
tymes to Maryland and there (as this deponent hath heard) the
Governor of Maryland say did much persuade him the said
Governor to come upp and take the said Ile of Kent as being
belonging to his Government, and that the said Governor did
further say that he had not soc come upp to take the said Hand
till he had further heard out of England, but that he the said
Governor could not rest in his bed for the said Evelin in per-
suading him to come thither to take the said Hand.
Ad 33. dicit et deponit That the said Evelin did deliver
certaine trading cloth full of holes and rotten in many places
but howe many yards there was of it this deponent knoweth
not, and alsoe that the said Evelin did deliver at the same
tyme to the said Smith Axes, knives and other comodyties, for
which said trading cloth and other trucking stuffe this deponent
did deliver for the said Thomas Smith into the Mill to Robert
Turtle Miller forty bushells of Corne, at a tyme when Corne
was scarce, and this deponent hath heard the said Turtle say,
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