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necessary providing of things in expectation of Trucke, was a
great damage to the said Jointstocke, and hapned by the
default of not sending of Truckingstuffe, and not by want of
the Care or Industry of the said Claiborne (as this deponent
believeth) and further deposeth not.
Ad 14. Articulum Dicit et deponit, That there was in the
yeares 1635 and 1636 many necessaries wanting on the said
Plantation, especially servants apparrell and necessaries for
boates, soe that the said Claiborne, was therefore (to this depo-
nent's owne knowledge) constreyned to goe to Virginia to
supplie the said Plantation, and that the said Claiborne did
pay for all such Commodities two for one and sometimes
more, then they cost in England And this deponent beleiveth
the said Claiborne paid the deerer, for all such Commodities,
as he bought in Virginia, because he deferred the buying of
them, till the last shipps arrivall in Virginia in expectation of
Trucke to be sent from his said partners, by which meanes
every servants apparrell did yearely (as this deponent beleiveth)
cost the said Claiborne att least £5. sterling And soe much
and more this deponent hath laid out for apparrelling his owne
servants, which he did then and since hath kept upon the said
Plantation on the said Ile of Kent.
Ad 15. Dicit et deponit, That by the said Claiborne's In-
dustry and by the supplies aforesaid, the said Plantation (to
this deponent's owne knowledge) thrived and prospered very
well, and better then ever any such Adventure, did on the said
Hand, or in other parts as this deponent knoweth of, And that
the Interruption of the Marylanders in takeing the Pinnace
Longtaile in the yeare 1635 was a great hindrance to the said
Jointstocke, soe that in the months of May and June of that
yeare, the people on the said Plantation were in great danger
to be starved for want of Corne, as farr as men could imagine
haveing noe boates to helpe themselves, and that att that time
the people on the said Hand haveing noe Corne to feed on,
the said Claiborne did send out Leif^t Warren, with divers men
under his Command to goe to Maryland, for the said Pinnace
Longtaile, But the Marylanders then killed three of the said
Claiborne's men viz^t the said Warren, John Belson, and William
Dawson, all which hindrance of the said Marylanders, and by
reason the said Claiborne had not a Patent under the King's
broad seale, were the greatest causes of damage and losse to
the said Jointstocke And this deponent never hard nor knew,
that the said Claiborne neglected to use his best care and
Industry, for the good of the said Trade and Plantation, and
further deposeth not.
Ad 20. Dicit et deponit That the landing of the articulate
Evelin on the said Plantation was (to this deponent's best re-