ers Wares and
Merchandizes at Cape Francois Sailed from thence in Company with the
said Ship _Louis Joseph_ and was afterwards taken by the said two
English Privateers who took the said Ship _Lewis Joseph_ or one of
them as this Deponent hath heard and believes, and was brought into
the Port of Philadelphia along with the said Ship, as the Prize of and
belonging to the said Privateers but when or where the said Snow was
Attacked or taken, or who was the Captain and Commander of her this
Deponent knows not, but hath heard and believes that the Captain,
Mariners and Owners of the said Snow were all Subjects of the French
King; and to the Rest of these Interrogatories cannot Depose.

JACQUE PIEGNON.

THE _APOLLO_.

_174. Deposition of John Brown. August 2, 1745._[1]

[Footnote 1: From the same manuscript volume as the preceding, pp.
262-264. The capture is thus recorded in the _Pennsylvania Gazette_ of
Aug. 1, 1745: "Yesterday arrived the Privateer _Trembleur_, belonging
to this Port, and brought in the Scotch Ship taken some Weeks since by
the Spanish Privateer Snow off the Capes of Virginia. Captain Bowne
met with [her] East of Bermudas, bound to Laguira".]

John Brown of Holywood near Belfast[2] in the Kingdom of Ireland being
Sworn,

[Footnote 2: Holywood is four or five miles northeast of Belfast, on
the east shore of Belfast Lough.]

_1st._ To the first Interrogatory saith that he Knows the Ship called
the _Apollo_ now rideing at Anchor in this Port of Philadelphia; That
he first Knew the said Ship At the aforesaid Port about Seven Years
ago, but the Particular Time does not now remember; That he was hired
by Alexander McMullen the Commander of the said Ship on or about the
Nineteenth Day of March last past at Larn[3] in the Kingdom of Ireland
aforesaid to proceed with the said Ship as Chief Mate thereof from
thence to Virginia; That the said Ship at her Departure from Larn
aforesaid was not Laden with any Goods, Wares or Merchandizes but in
her Ballast; That the said Ship _Apollo_ in the prosecution of the
said Intended Voyage was taken as a Prize on the Sixteenth day of June
last past upon the High Seas near the Capes of Virginia by a Spanish
Privateer Snow; That the Commander of the said Privateer after he had
taken Possession of the Ship _Apollo_ brought over board her into his
own Vessel the Master and all the Men belonging to the said Ship
except this Deponent and one Boy, and at the same time