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former Order gotten on Board the said Brig, this Deponents'
Boat broke loose from the said Brig and being floating about
was picked up by the said Brig's Hands on Board this
Deponent's Schooner about ten or twelve Minutes before the
said Brig's Mate had done the aforesaid Business in the
said Schooners' Cabbin and that upon his presenting this
Deponent's Papers to the Brig's Captain as aforesaid, the
said Brig's Captain, Mate, and all the Brig's Crew jumped
into the said Boat having before hauled down the Schooner's
Pendant and hoisted a Whiff at the Mast-Head, and the Brig
then bringing too, they set off in the said Boat from the
Schooner leaving this Deponent and his Crew tyed and
gagged as aforesaid and arrived on Board the said Brig
carrying with them five Cutlasses belonging to the said
Schooner besides this Deponent's Papers and Money as afore-
said jumped immediately upon their Arrival on Board the
said Brig, they stood away in her up the said Bay bound
for Patuxent River, and this Deponent further saith that
it was some considerable Time after the said Brig's Master
Mate and Crew had arrived on Board, the said Brig before
any of this Deponent's Crew on Board the said Schooner

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could get disengaged from the Condition in which they were
left by the said Brig's Master, Mate, and Crew, but im-
mediately on gaining Liberty this Deponent and his Crew
made Sail after the said Brig up the said Bay, but between
six and seven o' the Clock in the Evening lost Sight of the
Brig by Reason of the Night, and in the Night following this
Deponent in the said Schooner took up his Mate and other
Hands in this Deponent's Boat which the said Brig's Master,
Mate, and Crew had as aforesaid taken away with them
from on Board the said Schooner, and this Deponent further
saith that the said Brig's Captain having when this De-
ponent was on Board the said Brig told this Deponent that
there were on Board the said Brig seventy eight Hogsheads
of Sugar mentioned in the said Brig's Clearance, and two
more belonging to himself and one to his Mate, this De-
ponent did design pursuant to his aforementioned Commis-
sion, and his Instructions so received from the same Author-
ity which granted his aforesaid Commission to have carried
the said Brig into Hampton in Virginia and there to have
proceeded against her for Condemnation as legal Prize but
by the aforegoing Conduct of the said Brig's Master, Mate,
and Crew has been prevented from execution such Design,
And this Deponent saith that since the aforegoing Transac-
tion he hath seen the same Brig Marlborough in Patuxent

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