[3] Gunner.
[4] Boatswain's mate.
29. Deposition of John Johnson and Henry Harris. April 26, 1673.[1]
The depositions of John Johnson, aged 18 yeers, steersman, and Henry Harris, aged about 24 yeers:
These depon'ts testifie and say that they these deponts together with severall other seamen belonging unto Flushing, under the comand of Capt. Cornelious Lincort, Comand'r of the shipp Slandt Welvaeren, in English the Comonwelth, by vertu of a Comisson from his highness the prince of orange, we came up with the Providence of Falmouth (who was bound to Virginia) in the Latitude of 36: and 40: and tooke her, which when taken these depon'ts and ten more were put on bord her to Keepe and secure her, and after wee had been on bord some hours, in the night wee lost our own shipp and saw them no more, and about seven dayes after wee came up with a Londoner and thinking to take him, four of our company went on bord in the night but never returned, and the next day after the English that belonged to the sd Ship Providence, and some of the other ship before mencioned that wee had on bord with us prisoners, rose and retook her and suppressed us and have brought sd shipp and us into Piscattay River.
Grt Island[2] the 26th April 1673. taken upon oath by the persons above named before me
Elias Stileman, Comisr.[3]
[1] Suffolk Court Files, Boston, no. 1257, paper 19.
[2] Great Island, lying in the mouth of the Piscataqua River; at that time a part of Portsmouth, now New Castle, N.H.