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Ad 11. Articulum Dicit et deponit That he this deponent
hath seene the Accounts articulate, and that to his judgement
he beleiveth them to be true, And that as farr as he had any
knowledge of them, or any thing therein doth concerne him
this deponent, they are true, and such servants as are sett
downe, during this deponent's aboad were soe imploied there,
and theire labours were necessary and requisite for the said
Trade and Plantation, and that the things therein sett downe,
were laid out and expended by the said Claborne (as this
deponent verely beleeveth) for the severall uses therein re-
spectively expressed, and could not as this deponent beleiveth
be bought provided and performed for or with lesse Charge,
then the said Claiborne did, And this deponent being formerly
a trader with the Indians, and following the said imployment
and trade, beleiveth he cannot provide all the said necessaries
as the said Claiborne did for soe little Charge, as are sett
downe in the said Accounts, And that if the said Claborne had
hired such men as went upp with the said Claborne (out
of good will to the said Claborne) and did very much assist him
the said Claborne, on the said Plantation and Trade in his
Boates) it would have cost him the said Claborne a great deale
more then it did And further sayth concerneing the said
Accounts, that for a great part thereof, he knoweth, and for
the other part beleiveth, that the severall sommes in the said
Accounts mentioned to be true for Truckingstuffe, servants
apparrell, boates, housekeeping, servants wages, Allowance for
the severall Ministers, Gunns, Munition, Surgery, Expenses in
Journeys, buying a stocke of hoggs, working tooles, and other
necessaries therein expressed were soe laid out by the said
Claiborne on the said Plantation, and this deponent knoweth
that the said Trade hath yearely growen deerer arrd deerer,
and this deponent beleiveth that the ordinary price of Beaver
was then worth in Virginia, betweene the English Eight shillings
or Nine shillings the pound and now worth not above 6 or 7s
a pound And further deposeth not.
Ad 13. Articulum Dicit et deponit That the said Claiborne
(to this deponent's owne knowledge) did in the time of his
trading with the Indians, especially in the yeares 1635 and
1636 want Truckingstuffe And that this deponent hath often
heard, the said Claiborne say, he did expect to receive some
from his partners out of England And that the said Claiborne
did provide Pinnaces, boates, men and all things necessary
thereunto, as is articulate, And that the said Claiborne if he
had not wanted Truckingstuffe as aforesaid might have (as this
deponent beleiveth) bought with the same boates, men, and
meanes (which he the said Claiborne had and provided as
aforesaid) much more beaver then he did, soe that the un-
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