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Charles River have never beene soe profitable to the Ad-
venturers as this Plantation and trade would have beene, if
the said Clobery and Company had supplied the same and
procured a Patent from the king for the same And further
deposeth not.
Ad 17. dicit et deponit That all things therein conteyned
are true, to this deponent's owne knowledge.
Ad 18. dicit et deponit That after the supplie in February
1632: there was great want of trucke and of men, Gunns,
Powder, shott, boates, apparrell and many other necessaries,
all or most of which the said Claiborne supplied and bought
in Virginia, and that the said Plantation was afterwards two
yeares unsupplied by the said Clobery and partners And that
the supplie sent over in December 1634: was not sufficient for
the trade and Plantation nor goods proper for the said trade
and Plantation, And that if £321 then laid out in Dutch Hoes,
Coates, Blanketts and Kettles, had beene laid out in Dutch
Cloth and good axes, it would have yield above five times soe
much as it did, for the Indians would not meddle with the great
Kettles, Blanketts or hoes, or with very few of them And that
the said Claiborne left a great part of the said Kettles and
hoes behind him unsold with the said Evelin, when he went
for England, and all or most of them which he did sell he sold
to the Inhabitants and freemen on the said Plantation, And
that some part of the Dutch Cloath was rotten before it came
to the said Plantation and otherwise deposeth not.
Ad 22. dicit et deponit That the said Claiborne in or about
the 18th of May 1637: being in preparation to come for
England did in the presence and hearing of this deponent and
divers other freemen and servants assembled upon the said
Plantation make offer unto the said Evelin, that if he the said
Evelin would give the said Claiborne a bond of £3000 not to
alienate or sell the said Plantation and Hand or any part
thereof unto the Marylanders or any other and not remove or
carry away any of the said servants from the said Plantation,
that then he the said Claiborne would deliver unto the said
Evelin all the goods, servants and whatsoever else belonged
to the said Clobery and Company in the said Joint stocke
according to the Inventory thereof, made betweene the said
Evelin and Claiborne, of which each of them had a Coppie
(as this deponent hath heard and verely beleeveth whereupon
the said Evelin denied and refused to give the said Claborne
any such Bond and said he would recover them by law, or
words to that effect (to this deponent's best remembrance)
and that the said Claiborne 2 or 3 days after departed for
England, and that the said Evelin both while the said Clai-
borne was there and in his absence freely disposed and ordered
all the said Plantation and the said goods and servants and did
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