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.
[Footnote 2: A Spanish sailor would date by new style; June 27, N.S.,
was June 16, O.S., the date given in the previous deposition.]
[Footnote 3: _Nuestra Senora de los Dolores y [de las] Animas_, "Our
Lady of Sorrows and of Souls".]
[Footnote 4: Rather, in the viceroyalty of New Granada.]
[Footnote 5: June 20, O.S., according to John Brown's deposition.]
[Footnote 6: July 12, O.S. (Brown).]
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.
THE _PRINCE CHARLES OF LORRAINE_.
_176. Deposition of Benjamin Munro and William Kipp. April 23,
1746._[1]
[Footnote 1: Rhode Island Archives, volume lettered "Admiralty Papers,
1746-1750", p. 45. Capt. Simeon Potter of Bristol (a town in
Massachusetts till January, 1747, in Rhode Island after that date) was
one of the most noted and successfu
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