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more servants hurt by them, And that there was great want of
servant's apparrell and many other necessaries, And that the
said Plantation is esteemed 50 leagues from the shipping in
Virginia, And that the said Claborne did make many Journeys
and often sent to Virginia to his great hindrance (to this de-
ponents owne knowledge) and that he paid for all such Com-
modities at least two for one for this deponent hath often paid
soe, both for him the said Claborne and for himselfe since
that time, and this deponent beleeveth that the said Claborne
paid the dearer because he deferred the buying of them till the
arrivall of the last shipp there in expectation of supplies (as he
the said Claborne told this deponent) from his said partners
in England, and that thereby everie servants apparrell, did
yearly cost the said Claborne as this deponent beleeveth att
least £5. 10. And further deposeth not.
Ad 15. Dicit et deponit That by the said Claiborne's In-
dustry and Care and by the supplies aforesaid procured by
the said Claborne, and his other disbursments the said Planta-
tion thrived and prospered very well and better then ever any
Plantation ever did in those parts (as this deponent beleeveth
or could ever heare of, And that the interruption of the Mary-
landers and theire takeing of the boates men and goods
therein, and theire killing of the three men viz^t Lief^t Warren,
John Belson and William Dawson and the want of a Patent
from the king and the ill carriage of busines by Capt: George
Evelin was the greatest cause of losse and damage to the said
Joint stocke and not by any want of care and industry that the
said Claborne could use or procure 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 the supplie sent in the James
and Revenge in or about the month of Decemb^r 1634 was not
sufficient nor of goods proper for the said Trade and planta-
tion, and that if the money then laid out in Dutch hoes, Coates,
blanketts and Kettles had been expended in Dutch Cloath and
good Axes, it would have yielded a very great profitt wheareas
that part of the supply then sent as aforesaid would yield very
little profitt by reason the Indians would buy very little of them,
therefore the said Claborne did sell some of them to the In-
habitants and Freemen on the said Hand, and a great part of
them was left unsold when the said Claborne went for England,
And that the Wampampege then sent was to little for the said
trade, and that good Wampampege was not then worth above
10^s a fathome in Virginia, to this deponent's owne knowledge,
And that part of the Dutch Cloath was rotted as was supposed
on shippboard, before the said Claborne received it.
Ad 26. Dicit et deponit That the said Evelin about Mid-
somer 1637 did come to the said Plantation and did there by

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