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sailed on the last voyage [asations:] Namely the afore mentioned Gerbrant Jansz.
and Jan Claesen with and on the ship of the afore mentioned plainteff [= capitain
Adriaen Block] and the said Hendrick Rijbelinck on the ship of shipper Thijs
Mossel, from Monnikendam, on which Jan Joriss [Hontom] was supercargo. The
said Mossel’s ship arrived in the silver of New Virginia [= the Hindson River]
about seven weeks later than the said plaintiff’s ship arrive there. They know,
heard and understood that the afore mentioned Thijs Mossel and Jan Joriss, the
supercargo, arrived then for the first time in Virginia and that they had not been
there before and that this was the plaintiff’s third voyage.
They also truly know that the afore mentioned Thijs Mossel and his supercargo
sought and tried to spoil the trade of the said plaintiff there. They made him
suspicions partly because they gave or supplied twice as many goods of the same
quality and quantity for a beaver as the plaintiff gave before they arrive there,
namely three pieces, where the plaintiff gave only one.
Finally [they declare] that when the said Mossel sealed away from the silver with
his ship, a mulatto born in St. Domingo, who had arrive there with the ship of
the said Mossel, stayed askore at the same place. they had given this mulatto
eighty hatchets, some knives, a musket and a word. The said Thijs Mossel and his
supercargo themselves Declared that this Spaniard had run away from the ship
and gone askore against their intent and will and that they had given him the
said goods in payment of his wages and therefore had nothing more to do with
him. Moreover they testified that the new of the plaintiff ought to have[k]elled
him, seeing that he had declared that he would not come to this country [Hol¬
land] and that he would have sumped overboard if they had not allowed him to
depart. The deponents declare also to have knowledge that noody of the said
Mossel’s crew stayed askore in the said Virginia other than the said Spaniard.
The deponents present without ontruth what is written before, etc.
Done in the said city of Amsterdam at the home of my notary, in the presence of
Jeuriaen Corvin and Sijbrant Cornelis, asked to be witnesses.
CITY ARCHIVES AMSTERDAM
NOT. ARCH. 197 P.P. 614V-615.
NOTARY: JAN FRANSZ. BRUYNINGH
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