[4] La Guayra on the Venezuelan coast, the port of Carácas.
[5] Trembleur, i.e., Quaker. Her first appearance is in the journal of William Black, under date of May 30, 1744: "a fine Bermudas Sloop bought the other day for 800 pounds Sterling, and is called the le Trembleur, to carry 14 Carriage and 20 Swivel Guns, and 100 Men". Pa. Mag. Hist., I. 247.
[6] After the war was over, Bowne settled down to the keeping of a public-house "at the sign of the Trembleur", at the corner of Market and Water streets, hence long called "Bowne's corner". Memorial Hist. Phila., I. 263.
[7] This was that Richard Oswald (1705-1784), Franklin's friend, who signed for Great Britain the preliminary articles of peace with the United States, Nov. 30, 1782.
175. Deposition of Diego de Prada y Nieto. August 2, 1745.[1]
Diego De Prada y Nieto of Sevilla in the Kingdom of Spain being Sworn
3d. To the third Interrogatory Saith That he Knows the Ship called the Apollo now riding at Anchor in this Port of Philadelphia; That he first saw the said Ship Apollo on the High Seas on the Twenty seventh or Twenty eight day of June last, New stile,[2] about the distance of Twelve or thirteen leagues from the Capes of Virginia; That the Persons then on Board the said Ship were Subjects of the King of Great Britain; That the said Ship Apollo at or about the place and Time aforesaid was Attacked and Taken Prize [by] a Spanish Privateer Snow called the Neustra Senora De los Dellores y Animas[3] Commanded by Don Carlos Francisco de Bissava and Navigated by Eighty Mariners all Subjects of the King of Spain; That immediately upon the said Ship Apollo being taken as aforesaid this Deponant with fifteen or Sixteen Spanish Mariners belonging to the Said Spanish Snow were sent by the said Capt. Don Carlos Francisco de Bissava on Board the said Ship Apollo whereof they took possession; That the Command of the said Ship Apollo was given to this Deponent with orders to carry her to Laguira on the Coast of Caraccas in new Spain;[4] That on or about the thirty first day of June last N.S.[5] the said Capt. De Bissava caused to be put on Board the said Ship Apollo sundry Goods, Wares and Merchandizes being the Cargo of a Certain Snow taken by a Spainish Privateer about five days before, two legues from the Coast of Virginia, but the Names of the Owners or Commander of the said Snow this Deponent Knows not but has heard and believes tha[t] she belonged to the Subjects of the King of Great Britain; That the said Depont. with the said fifteen or Sixteen other Spanish Mariners Continued in Possession and had the Care and Conduct of the said Ship Apollo untill the 23d day of July last, New Stile,[6] when she was attacked and Retaken by an English Privateer Sloop called the Trembleur whereof Capt. Obidiah Bowne was Commander; That the said Captain Bowne immediately upon his retaken the said Ship Apollo put on Board her thirteen Men who Conducted and brought the said Ship to this Port of Philadelphia.
4th. To the fourth Interrogatory This Deponent Saith That among the People who were put on board the said Ship Apollo by the Spaniards there was one Mullato man who was called Limena whom this Deponent says is a free man, and that he, this Deponent had been informed by several and by the said Mullato himself that since the Commencement of the War between England and Spain he was Taken and Carred in to Jamaica and there sold as a Slave and that he run away from the English and got among the Spaniard And this Deponent further heard that he belonged to a Privateer Commanded by Don Pedro De Parieveck and that having quarreld with one of the Officers on board the same, the said Commander by a Letter desired the said Captain Don Carlos Francisco de Bissava Commander of the said Spanish Privateer Snow called the Neustra Senora de los Dellores y Animas to receive the said Mullato on board the same and that he was received aboard accordingly and was to draw an equall share with the Whitemen and did receive ten pieces of Eight Advance money being the sum the Whitemen also receivd and the said Mullato was looked upon by the People on Board the said Privateer as a freeman and by some of them was well known.
Diego D Prada
Lone Nieto.
[1] From the same volume as the preceding, pp. 264-266.