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and Claiborne talke of them, and the said Thompson then
found noe dislike therewith nor required any Account from
the said Claiborne to be given for the said goods, but to this
deponent's best remembrance was well content, he the said
Claiborne should dispose of the said goods to the proper use
of him the said Claborne, and further deposeth not.
Ad 9. Articulum Dicit et deponit That to this deponents
knowledge (he being one of the Freemen, that went upp with
the said Claiborne to the articulate Hand) this Article is true
and soe had and done as is articulate.
Ad 10. Dicit et deponit That the six servants mentioned in
the Account articulate which this deponent hath seene and
perused, died some comeing over in the articulate shipp, and
some soone after theire arrivall on the articulate Hand, and the
rest of the servants then sent over were, (as commonly all new
hands are) very sicke and weake and hardly able to defend
themselves much lesse to defend the Fort against the Indians,
and that therefore the said Claiborne was necessarily con-
streyned to hire men to saile the boates, defend the Fort, and
other occasions, and this deponent beleiveth that such wages
were paid them by the said Claiborne, as are sett downe in the
Account which seems to this deponent very reasonable, and
that the said men which the said Claiborne then hired could
have had more of other Planters, that then hired men, and
that in the common estimation of men, it had beene a thing
impossible for the said Claiborne with lesse then 50. or 40.
men att the least to have managed the said Trade and Planta-
tion, without the articulate Freemens assistance, which out of
respective love to the said Claiborne went upp to the articulate
Hand and planted there, and that it was and yett is necessary
for the said Trade in the months of March, Aprill May and
June, to keepe and imploy att least 3. boates abroad, and
them to be well manned with 8. 7. or 6. men att the lest in
each of them with gunns Armes Ammunition and other
necessaries, which the said Claiborne allwaies did, during this
said deponents aboad on the said Hand, which was the two first
yeares and further deposeth not.
Ad 11. Dicit et deponit, That the articulate Account which
this deponent hath perused over and considered, he verely
beleiveth itt, to be a true and just Account paid, laid out, and
expended by the said Claiborne for the use articulate, soe farr
as they any way concerned him this deponent, and such servants
as are sett downe in the said Account, during this deponents
obaad there on the said Iland, were soe imploied as is articu-
late, and that the said Claborne did provide and manage his
busines and affaires, with as little charge as any man could
have done, And this deponent knoweth, that if the said Cla-
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