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with lesse then 40 able men to have maintained the said Trade
and Plantation as hee did without this deponent's and other
freemen theire assistance, and that it was and is necessary in
the Months of March, Aprill, May and June for the said Trade
to keepe at least 3 boates a broad well manned with 7 or 8
men in each of them with Gunns, Armes and Ammunition,
And that the said Claiborne (to this deponent's owne knowl-
edge for he hath often beene a trading with the said Claborne
in the Boates) did yearely maintain 3 boates well manned as
aforesaid, and further deposeth that he hath perused the
Articulate second schedule and knoweth that all the servants
therein mentioned were hired and imployed upon the said
Trade and Plantation, and that the said servants received such
wages of the said Claiborne as are mentioned in the said
Accounts, most part thereof this deponent was privy unto and
to the rest he beleeveth to be true, because he knoweth the like
men cannot now there be hired att greater rates for theire
wages. And further deposeth not.
Ad 11. dicit et deponit That the Account hereunto annexed
which this deponent hath read and considered over and over,
and is as this deponent verely beleeveth a true and Just
Account paid, laid out and expended for the use of the said
Jointstock, and beleeveth that all things therein contained were
necessarilie paid, laid out and expended, for the severall uses
in the said Accounts respectively expressed and could not in
the common estimation of men experienced in those affaires
be bought, provided and performed for or with lesse charge,
then the said Claiborne did, and that if any stranger had come
thither, and paid for such labours as this deponent and others
performed for the said Claiborne for nothing, the said Planta-
tion and trade could not have beene upheld and maintained
for Three times soe much in the said Accounts all which the
premisses this deponent averreth he being all the time ac-
quainted with those affaires and liveing all the while with the
said Claborne and privy to most of the proceedings, and
further deposeth that concerneing the Truckingstuffe and the
proceeds thereof mentioned in the 2 last pages of the said
Accounts, he remembreth not justly soe long past the particuler
quantities traded for yearely by the said Claiborne, but to his
best remembrance beleeveth that the first yeares Beaver 1632
bought for Tobacco and burnt Trucke with other Trucke
brought by the said Claiborne from Virginia and the Dutch
Plantation was not above 350 skinns or neere thereabouts, and
the second yeares Beaver not above 900 or 1000 skinns, att
the buying of many whereof, this deponent was present, and
the said Dutch Cloath being but 19 peeces this deponent
conceiveth that the same with the other trucke which then the
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