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Lib. J. R.
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p. 287
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David Carcand Master of the Brigantine called the Duke
of Marlborough lately returned from a Voyage beyond Sea
being examined saith that on the eleventh Day of last Month
(being February) he this Examinant entered the Capes of
Virginia with the Brigantine aforesaid, bound for the River
Patuxent in Maryland, and met a Schooner standing down
Chesopeak Bay off New Point Comfort the Master of which
Schooner ordered this Examinant to bring too, which this
Examinant accordingly did, he having before demanded
whence this Examinant came, who answered, "from Sea,"
and the Master of the said Schooner came on Board this
Examinants Brig, and as Mate of the said Schooner (saying
her Master was sick) demanded a Sight of this Examinants
Papers which beingf accordingly shewn by this Examinant
to him, he the said Schooners' Master as Mate found Fault
only with this Examinants' Register as not being good, be-
cause it described the Vessel for which that Register was
originally made out to have been a Schooner by the Name of
the Duke of Marlborough and to have been converted into
a Brigantine of the same Name by Indorsement only on the
said Register, and that the said Brig should have had a new
Register, but made no Objection at this time to any of the
Examinants Papers, being wrote in a Foreign Language,
and upon this Examinants asking him if he had a Commis-
sion the said pretended Mate shewed this Examinant a large
Paper with a large Seal to it Part of which this Examinant
read, and then telling this Examinant he would go on Board
the said Schooner, and acquaint the Captain immediately
took to his Boat and returned on Board the said Schooner,
and thence hailed this Examinant and ordered him on Board
the said Schooner with his Papers, and accordingly sent his
Boat for him, and upon this Examinants' going on Board the
said Schooner accordingly with his Papers he was by the
Person who was as aforesaid on Board this Examinants'
Brig as Mate of the said Schooner introduced into the Cabin
of the said Schooner to the real Mate of her as her Captain
upon which this Examinant produced and delivered his
Papers to the aforesaid supposed Mate of the said Schooner
who delivered them to the aforesaid supposed Captain, who
upon inspecting this Examinants' Register declared it was
not good, and upon examining the other Papers, he said he
did not understand them, meaning as this Examinant sup-
poses the Papers this Examinant received as his Clearance
from Monti Christo; this Examinant then asked what they
intended to do with him, upon which the real Captain but
now supposed Mate of the said Schooner, asked the sup-
posed Captain of her, what he would do with the Brig and
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