194 Claiborne's Petition and

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by the supplies which the said Claiborne procured the said
Plantation prospered very well, and to this deponent's owne
knowledge better then ever any such Adventures ever did in

those parts soe farr as this deponent ever heard, and that by
reason of the Marylanders takeing away of the Pinnace, boates
and Trucke belonging to the said Plantation (to this deponent's
owne knowledge) the Plantation thereby wanted Corne, and
by reason the Marylanders killed 3 of the men viz^t LeiP Warren,
John Belson and William Dawson and by the want of a Patent,
there hath ensued a great losse and damage to the said Joint-
stocke and not (soe farr as this deponent knoweth) for want
of Industry and care that the said Claiborne could use or
procure.
Ad 16. Articulum dicit et deponit That (as this deponent
verely beleeveth) noe other English that traded with the Indians
in those yeares viz^t 31: 32: 33: 34: 35: 36: et 37 made soe
good voyages or gott soe much Beaver, with soe little Trucke
and soe little supplies as the said Claborne did in the foresaid
yeares, and that as this deponent hath heard the Adventures
to Charles River and Maryland, were not soe profitable to the
Adventurers (as this deponent verely beleeveth) as this Planta-
tion would have beene if the said Claiborne had had good
supplies out of England, and had a Patent from the King to
enjoy the same and further deposeth not.
Ad 17. Articulum dicit et deponit, That the Common Course
of trading with the Indians (to this deponent's owne knowl-
edge for he hath often beene with the said Claiborne a trading
with them) is with great danger of their lives by reason they
usually trade in Shallopps, with not above six or seven men in
each of the said Shallopps, and that there wilbe sometimes att
least 3 or 400 Indians about the Shallopp, and that some of the
said Traders must stand upon their guard and other some looke
to the trucke, and that the Indians come with Axes, Toma-
hawkes and Bowes and Arrowes with them, and that there is
oftentimes great parte of the Trucke stole by the Indians
and a good parte given for presents, and that the Indians
wilbe very tedious in veiweing theire Trucke, soe that it is
impossible (as this deponent beleeveth and is Articulate) to
keepe everie parcell asunder or keepe any certaine Account,
only at the end of the voyage to see what is sold and what is
left and what is gained and what lost.
Ad 18. Articulum dicit et deponit That he heard comonly
reported the supplie that was sent over in February 1632 was
not sufficient for the said trade, and that (to this deponent's
owne knowledge there was great want of Trucke that summer
following as alsoe of Ammunition as Powder, shott and gunns,
alsoe men, boates, apparell and other necessaries, all which the