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633) Aprill the Seaventh 1703 He upon oath said I doe know Alexander Forbes Complt against Lowe Defd.t I have heard that there has beene Toba Damnifyed in the five man boat but whose Tobaccoe or how it was damnifyed I know not nor any thing of her Leakyness He said nothing further and to the best of his remembrance Edward Buth and Ralph Stevens who brought her from Kent did hawle her to shore and tyed her to a Stake The answer of Ambros Kennimont to the sev.rall Interrogatoryes proposed by Alexander Forbes Complt against Nicholas Lowe Defd.t Aprill the Twelfth 1703 Upon his oath did say I doe know Alexander Forbes the Complt and Nicholas Lowe the Defdant As to the five man boat being worme eatten or rotten the Twenty sixth day of July 1697 I know nothing of but within this moneth have heard there was some Tobaccoe Damnified in her a little before M.r Forbes had her by meanes of her Leakeyness When the five man boat lay at my landing and M.r Forbes had goods putting on board of her she proved very Leaky and one of the Me endeavouring to stopp some of her Leaks I did perceive some part her Timber and the planke under it on the inward side of the boat to be rotten soe that he could doe but little good in stopping the Leak As to his rigging of the boat cann say nothing being Ignorant in those things but have heard one of the men that went in her say that they had beene in great Danger for the sayles of the boat tore in peices meeting with some thing of a storme And I doe know that M.r Forbes did hire Richard Austin and James Steward and they Assisted in loading the boat and Carrying her to Kent and while she was loading she was very Leaky so that they did pump sev.rall times both in the day and night following; the boat seemed to me not to be over loaden And to the best of my knowledge received noe damage in loading she was very leaky but we did not soe well pceive it untill near loaden but then she did leak soe fast that it seemed to me that she Could not carry her burthen to the place intended without great care and labour The Answer of James Steward to the sev.rall Interrogatoryes pposed by Alexander Forbes Complt v Nicholas Lowe Defd.ts the Twelfth day of |
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