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      Warren or Williams, And further also Saith that he the Sd this Liber B.

      Depont was present and a Wittness aboard the Said Ship to

      the Sealing and delivering of a hundred pounds bond to the

      Said Cap' Mitchell by the sd Mrs Warren by the name of

      Elizabeth Williams and that At the Same time the Said Mrs p. 322

      Warren openly before all the Company then present expressed

      upon the delivery thereof tht She did not owe the Sd Capt

      Mitchell a penny but that She was forced to enter the Said

      bond to procure her own peace and quiett or to that effect, And

      the Depont is verily perswaded in his Conscience that She

      Speake the truth in that particular for that he was an Eye

      Wittness to the Cruell harsh dealings by blows and otherwise

      used by the Said Capt Mitchell to the Said Mrs Warren

      aboard the Said Ship, and this Depont further likewise Saith

      That the Said Capt Mitchell after his arrival in this Province

      gave Order in this Depts hearing to Mrs Warren and Mrs

      Boulton, that a Note or Inventory Should be taken of his own

      goods, that they might not be mingled with the Said Mr Smith's

      goods, and afterwards the Same or the next day this Depont

      taketh it the sd Capt Mitchell in this Deponts hearing in the

      Hall of the white house where there lay a good bedd and two

      blanketts by themselves, ask't Mrs Warren whose bedding it

      was, who Said it was her ffathers, to which the Said Capt

      Mitchell made noe reply Soe far as this Depont remembreth,

      all which before herein rehearsed or the Same in effect this

      Depont averreth upon his Oath to be true and further Saith not.

             J urat die & Anno Supradict coram me

                                      Wm Stone

                    The Deposition of Anne Hamstead wife of

                    Wm Hamstead Sworn & examd June 20th

                          1651 Saith

        That at Portsmouth in England upon Capt Mitchell's & the

      rest of his Company their late comeing to to Sea for these

      parts She there Saw the Sd Capt Mitchell borrow of Mrs Susan

      Warren who then went by the name of Mrs Eliz: Williams Six

      pounds ten Shillings which She the Sd Mrs Warren Said She

      would pay for her passage hither And which money She was p. 323

      drawn to lend unto him upon his telling her that he had paid

      for the passage of more then he had to Ship aboard and that

      he wanted money for Supply of his then present occasions, and

      She might as well Ship herself upon his account which Should

      be noe prejudice to her at all or to that Effect and further this

      Depont Saith She heard the Said Capt Mitchell Say that the Sd

      Mrs Warren or Williams had paid him Six pounds ten Shilling

      at Gravesend for the passage of Martha Webb her Servant,

      and that he had not been able to have brought any Consider-