446 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761.

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

which comes down by the main Mast, he could not see what
the Mate of the Brig took out of Captain Mulkere's Chest,
but that after the Brig's People had left the Schooner and
Captain Mulkere and his Crew had got loose (which they
did before the Brig's People had reached the Brig) Captain

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Mulkere ordered the Deponent to go into the Cabbin and
see what was amiss, in Obedience to which Order he the
Deponent went in and discovered that the Trunk which was
in the Chest, wherein he kept his Mony and Papers was open
and that the Papers were in Disorder some of them being
out of the Trunk in the Chest upon Captain Mulkere's
Cloaths of which when he came out of the Cabbin again he
informed his Captain who thereupon asked him the Deponent
whether he thought there was any Mony missing out of the
Trunk to which the Deponent answered that he could not
tell, but Captain Mulkere said that he had seen the Brig's
Mate put some of the Mony in his Pockett; the Deponent
also saith that while the Brig's People were on Board the
Schooner, he heard the Mate of the Brig call one of the
Crew by the Name of M^cLachlan and also one of the Crew
address the said Mate by the Name of Belt, whereupon he
the said Mate cursed the Person who spoke to him, and
forbad him to mention any Names, and the Deponent further
saith that the Cabbin of the said Schooner has a Bulk-Head
on the Deck in the Centre of which Bulk-Head is a Folding
Duur which opens outwards, that the Captain's Chest which
is about five Feet long and two Foot and a Half high, and
about three Feet and half wide was in the Cabbin with its
Back close against the said Bulk-head, and stood so much
on the Larboard Side of the Vessel as that the Starboard
End of the said Chest reached two third Parts across the
Door Way and that the Captain was bound to the Larboard
Pump which is at the Distance of about four Feet from the
Bulk-Head.
W^m Every.
12 March 1761: Sworn before the Governor and Council.
J Ross Cl.. Conc.

Arthur Pierson Mariner belonging to the Schooner In-
dustry commanded by Valentine Mulkere aged twenty three
or thereabouts being sworn on the holy Evangels of Al-
mighty God deposeth and saith that on Wednesday the 18^th
of February about ten o'Clock in the Morning as the said
Schooner was proceeding' down the Bay of Chesopeak Cap-
tain Mulkere hailed a Brig which was off of New Point
Comfort standing up the Bay, asking the Master of said
Brig, "whence he came" to which the Master said "from