224 Claibornes Petition and

P. R. O.

Colonial
Papers.

supplies had bene sent out of England, and that notwithstand-
ing the want of such supplies the meanes which the said Clai-
borne had procured would have uppheld and made the same
thrive and become beneficiall to the Adventurers if the articu-
late Marielanders had not interrupted the said Claibornes pro-
cedings and traid by reason the said Claiborne had not a
patent under thee Broad seale of England, And this deponent
veriely beleveth that yf such a patent had bene sent to the
said Claiborne by his partners, the said Adventure in the Joynt
stocke would have bene excedingly beneficiall and profitable,
and that for want thereof the Marielanders did much hinder the
said Claiborne while he stayed upon the said Hand, and did
more Especially about Aprill and May in the yeare 1635
especially interrupt the said Claiborne's affaires, And did take
the said Claibornes Boates and Pynnaces.wherof one Pynnace
was this deponents then ymployed by the said Claiborne for
the use of the said Joyntstocke into Patomecke River where
the said Marielanders did severall tymes vyolently with armed
men gonnes and Indyans assault this deponent in his said
Pynnace and boate and tooke this deponent and the said Pyn-
nace with all the goods therein yet this deponent afterwards
escaped with his said Pynnace, And this deponent knoweth
that by reason of the said Marielanders takeing the said Pyn-
nace and Boates of the said Claiborne and hindering of them
in their traid, The Plantation and people upon the said Ile

of Kent were putt to a great straite and were starved in the
Months of May and June in the said yeare 1635: About the
latter end of which said month of June this deponent haveing
escaped by great Chaunce as aforesaid did bring a supply of
Corne to the said Plantation, without which Corne, this depo-
nent cannot ymagine, how the people there should have lived
but must have bene nere starved and fedd upon unwholsome
food.
Ad 16. Dicit et deponit That he hath had long experience in
the traid of Beaver in those parts and hath a great part knowen
the traiding of the articulate Captaine Fleet and M^r Hazmer
and other traiders and knoweth that they were for the most
parte still indebted to divers semen and that because of the
great Chardgs and expencs which are necessarily laid out in
mens waiges boats victualls trucke and other occasions And
this deponent hath often heard that the Adventurers for the
Trade of Beaver to Charles River and Marieland are no
gayners but much out of purse, and beleveth that this Planta-
tion and Traid would have bene profitable if a Pattent and
Supplyes had bene procured and sent out of England as is
articulate And further deposeth not.
Ad 17. Dicit et deponit that the manner and daunger of