154 Journal and Correspondence

C. S. C.

and Cap^t Yell that they must go abord, for they could not
keep guard aboard & ashore too, they then ordered them on
board, as they were going along he said (God damn you) do
you goe before the guard. John Evans said it would make
no difference, he the said Mister said they should not goe
before the Guard, when they got aboard they ordered them
down in the Cabbin where they remained all night, there were
several on the Guard viz. Joseph Wheeland, John Evans, John
Price, Robert Howith and one Dial, and several others, that
he did not know, which said persons as mentioned above is
under guard at Hoopers Straights except the said Dial. The
next morning Joseph Wheeland ordered three hands to bring
up the Vessel, they said when they returned that she was
between two bars and they could not get her off. John Evans
then persuaded the said Joseph Wheeland to let the men have
the Vessel again, as she would not be of any service to them ;
Wheeland then told this deponant that Cap^t Yell might have
the Vessel if they would get her off. This deponant and Yell
then went down to the said Vessel, and when the said depo-
nant and Yell returned, the said Yell told the said Wheeland
that he could get her off, and wanted his said Cloths & money,
he then refused him his cloths and Vessel, and said he must
have the tar, but if he would waite till he was gone to the
fleet he might have the residue of his Cargo and Vessel.
The said deponent and Yell went to unloading the s'd Vessel
and took out six barrels of tar and put them on board Richard
Evan's boat, and told the said Wheeland that he should have
the residue as soon as he could come at it. Wheeland told
the said Deponent that he had just received orders to come
immediately to the fleet, and to burn that Vessel that was
understood to be Whites; the said Yell then asked him for his
Cloths & money, he then gave him part of his Clothes, and
told him some person had stole his money, and that he might
have his Vessel and all his load, this Deponant says that he
heard the said Joseph Wheeland tell the said Marmaduke
Mister that if he would see the afs'd Sloop that belonged to
White burnt he might have the iron of s'd vessel, upon which
said Vessel was burnt, that the said Joseph Wheeland went
off immediately the said Capt. Yell and this deponent hired
hands and got off their Vessel and carrie'd her to the Creek
afs'd in order to take in the remainder of her load and before
he had got her loaded two Tenders came in with the Island
and the said Deponant and Cap^t Yell went on Shore, and as
soon as they got on shore two persons came down the Creek
and went on board the said Vessel and carryd her over to the
fleet, one of the persons as this deponant was informed was
Isaac Summers from Little Annamesick, the other a lad