put on Board
her Sixteen Mariners belonging to the said Spanish Privateer Snow;
That on or about the twentieth Day of the said Month of June the
Commander of the said Spanish Privateer caused to be laden on Board
the said Ship _Apollo_ several Goods, Wares and Merchandizes the Cargo
of a Certain British Snow which the said Privateer had taken a few
Days before; That soon after the said Goods, Wares and Merchandizes
were put on Board the said Ship _Apollo_ she was seperated from the
said Spanish Privateer; That he this Deponant was on Board the said
Ship _Apollo_ at the Time of such her seperation and saith that she
remained under the Conduct of the said Sixteen Spanish Mariners who
were put on Board her on her being first taken as aforesaid (in order
to carry her to Laguira[4] as they informed this Deponant) untill the
twelfth day of July last past when the said Ship _Apollo_ was attacked
and Retaken as a Prize on the High Seas by an English Privateer Sloop
called the _Trembluer_[5] whereof Captain Obadiah Bowne was
Commander;[6] That upon the Recaption of the said Ship _Apollo_ by the
said Sloop the said Captain Obadiah Bowne put on Board her twelve or
Thirteen Mariners in order to navigate and carry her to this Port of
Philadelphia where she arrived the first day of this Instant Month of
August and till which Time the said Deponent Continued on Board her
from the Time of her being Retaken as aforesaid.

[Footnote 3: Larne lies on the northeast coast of Ireland, some twenty
miles north of Belfast.]

[Footnote 4: La Guayra on the Venezuelan coast, the port of Caracas.]

[Footnote 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.]

[Footnote 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.]

_2d._ To the second Interrogatory this Deponent saith that the said
Ship _apollo_ at the Time of his being Shipped as Chief Mate of her as
aforesaid did belong to Richard Oswald[7] and Company Merchants
residing in Glascow in Scotland and subjects of the King of Great
Britain as this Deponent was informed by