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Crew being nine in Number came on Board the Schooner,
and the Deponent heard the Master of the Brig ask his, the
Deponents' Captain whether he intended to carry the Brig
out of the Capes, to which Captain Mulkere answered that
he did not know that then the Mate of the Brig and several
of her Crew declared that they would not be carried out
of the Capes that then Captain Mulkere perceiving that the
Brig was driving towards the Shore, ordered his Mate and
four others of his Crew to go and take Charge of her which
they immediately did, it being then about Noon, that about
an Hour and Half afterwards there having been during
that Time much wrangling between Captain Mulkere, and
the Master, Mate, and Crew of the Brig, whom the said
Captain had threatned to put in Irons the said Master, Mate
and Crew of the Brig, rose on the Schooners Crew and took
Command of her, then the Mate of the Brig, and four of
five others being ordered to do so by their Captain, tyed
Captain Mulkere standing to the Pump his Hands behind
him, and then tyed the rest of the Schooners' Crew who
were at that Time on Board her, that this being done, and
the Mate of the Brig about to strike the Pendant, Captain
Mulkere forbad him to do so, and when the Brig's Mate
proceeded to hoist a Whiff as a Signal for the Brig to come
to Captain Mulkere hallowed to his Mate forbidding him to
obey the Signal whereupon the Brigs-Mate shook a Cutlass
oyer him threatning, that if he offered to hallow again he
would cut him down, and that then the said Mate gagged
Captain Mulkere with a silk Handkerchief and the Brig
bringing to, the Schooner run up very her and then came
to an Anchor, that after this the Brig's Mate and Crew cut
and unreeved the Schooner's Halliards, that then the Brig's
Master having taken from Captain Mulkere (before he was
bound) a Bunch of Keys delivered them to his Mate desiring
him to go and took for his Papers, whereupon the Mate
went into the Cabbin and returned soon afterwards with
some Papers, and holding them up, asked the Master of the
Brig if these were his Papers, to which, the Master answer-
ing in the Affirmative the Mate said, "then come along,"
whereupon the Master, Mate, and Brig's Crew went into the
Schooner's Boat which had been driven from the Brig and
been taken up b)' the Brig's People on Board the Schooner,
carrying with them three Cutlasses, and a Musquet which
belonged to the Schooner and then rowed to the Brig, and
having got on Board her made Sail carrying with them the
Mate and the four Hands which Captain Mulkere had be-
fore sent to take Charge of the said Brig. The Deponent
further saith that being himself tyed to the Spring Stay
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Lib. J. R.
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p. 279
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