192 Claiborne's Petition and

P. R. O.

Colonial
Papers.

Thomas Hailes de Insul: Kant in provincia de Maryland
etatis 34 Annor. aut eo cerciter natus infra pochiam de Wad-
dington in Com. Lincoln
Testis in hac parte productus Juratus et examinatus.

Ad 9. Articulum Dicit et deponit That all things therein
conteyned are true.
Ad 10. Articulum Dicit et deponit, That many of the ablest
servants sent over in the Articulate Shipp the Affrica, died in
the said shipp and att theire first comeing over viz^t John
Thompson, Phillipp Hamblin, John Dunne Christofer Fleming,
John Butler and Thomas Tripland, and that most of them that
remained were weeke men and not able to helpe themselves,
much less to defend the Fort against the Indians, by reason
whereof to this deponent's owne knowledge, the said Claiborne
was inforced to hire this deponent and other free men to saile
in the boates and for other occasions upon the said Plantation,
and that it was necessary for the said Claiborne soe to doe,
and that the wages paid this deponent and the other freemen
and servants were reasonable and lesse then they could have
had in Virginia, and that others that hired men paid as great
or greater wages, and this deponent thinketh that it was
impossible for the said Claiborne to have held or kept the said
Plantation with 30 or 40 men newly come out of" England,
without the assistance of the said freemen, and that it is
requisite in 4 months of the yeare att least viz^t March, Aprill,
May and June for the said trade to have 3 or 4 Boates att a
time, to goe a trading with, to the Indians, else it will scarce
beare Charges and not be worth while, and them boates to be
well maned with at least 6 or 7 men in each of them, else they
are in danger to be cutt of by the Indians, and to this
deponent's owne knowledge the Indians have served others
soe, being but weekely maned with 4 or 5 men, and the said
boates to have all things necessary about them as gunns and
other ammunition, and that the said Claborne did everie of the
said yeares and months aforesaid send out 3 or 4 boates well
manned with 6 or 7 men att least, and with other things
necessary for the said trade.
Ad 12. dicit et deponit That the said Claiborne did procure
out of Virginia as this deponent beleeveth divers Neate Cattle
to the number of 30 or thereabouts, and that the Milk of everie
Cow was as nourishment to the servants there being att the
first comeing some or other allwaies sicke and weake, and that
this deponent or most of the said freemen on the said Hand
would willinglie have given the said Claiborne above a 100^lbs
of Tobacco yearely for the milke of everie Cow, and they the
said freemen to have kept the said Cattle and att the-end of