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Ric: Thompson de Insul: Kant in provincia de Maryland
etatis 27. Annor. aut eo circiter natus infra Civit: Norwich in
Com. Norfolk.
Testis in hac parte productus Juratus et examinatus dicit et
deponit.
Ad 9. dicit et deponit That the said Claborne procured
divers Freemen to go up with him and plant upon the said
Plantation by reason the servants belonging to the said Joint-
stocke was not of sufficient strength against the Indians who
had lately cutt of a Plantation there and slaine 30 or 40 Dutch-
men which lived not farr for thence, and sought and attempted
to doe the like to the said Plantation, And that the said Cla-
borne did hire and bring thither divers servants, this deponent
being one of them The names of the rest are mentioned in
the said Account, without the assistance of which said freemen
and servants the said Plantation and trade could not have
beene upheld and defended And that the said Freemen did
not hinder the said trade or buy any beavers of the Indians
for themselves, or did not hurt anything of the said Jointstocke
but did very much further the same in goeing a trading for
the said Claborne, and in many other particulars.
Ad 11. dicit et deponit That he this deponent hath considered
and perused often over the Accompts articulate, and findeth
that a great part of the disbursements therein mentioned to be
paid laid out and expended by the said Claborne, are (to this
deponent's owne knowledge) true and soe paid laid out and ex-
pended, as is sett downe in the said Accompts, and the residue
thereof this deponent beleeveth to be true and very resonable
and necessary laid out and expended for the use and benefitt
of the said Jointstock, and could not in the Common estimation
of men experienced in those affaires be bought provided and
performed for or with lesse Charge then is sett downe in the
said Accounts, and this deponent being now a Trader with the
Indians, and following the said Imployments the said Claborne
did, beleeveth that the said Claborne did manage the said
Trade and Plantation with as little or lesse charge, as any man
could possiblie have done, And further sayth that the severall
somes in the said Accounts mentioned, for truckingstuffe
servants apparrell, boates, housekeeping, servants wages, allow-
ance to the severall Ministers, gunns, Munition, Surgery, Ex-
pences in Journeys, buying of a stocke of hoggs, working tooles
and other necessaries therein expressed were soe laid out by
the said Claborne And that all the servants therein mentioned,
were there imploied by the said Claborne, And further this
deponent saith to the generall Account of the Truckingstuffe
and proceeds thereof mentioned in the 2. last pages of the
said second schedule that he this deponent hath seene the
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