erning which you are now
examined, taken and seized? at what time, and upon what day of the
month, and in what year, was or were the said schooner so taken and
seized?

[Footnote 3: A statement of the longitude, it will be observed, is not
required. Any navigator of that time could easily determine his
latitude, but there was no accurate method of determining longitude at
sea till John Harrison made his trial voyage to Jamaica with his
chronometer in 1761-1762.]

15. Whether was there any charter party signed for the voyage, wherein
the schooner, concerning which you are now examined, was taken and
seized? what is become thereof? when, where, and between whom was the
same made? what were the contents thereof?

16. What papers, bills of lading, letters, or other writings, any way
concerning or relating to the schooner concerning which you are now
examined, were on board the said schooner at the time of the seizure
of the said schooner? were any of the papers thrown overboard by any
person, and whom, and when, and by whose orders?

17. What loss or damage have you sustained, by reason of the seizing
and taking of the said schooner concerning which you are now examined?
to what value does such loss or damages amount? and how and after what
manner do you compute such loss and damage? have you received any and
what satisfaction for such the loss and damage which you have
sustained, and when and from whom did you receive the same?

_LA VIRGEN DEL ROSARIO Y EL SANTO CRISTO DE BUEN VIAGE._

_184. Libel of Richard Haddon. March 9, 1757._[1]

[Footnote 1: This document, and all that follow relating to this case,
nos. 184-196, are derived from the files of the vice-admiralty court
which during the colonial period sat in New York. They are preserved
in the offices of the United States district court in that city. In
the case of the colonial admiralty courts which sat in Boston,
Philadelphia, and Charleston, only the record-books of those courts,
from which several of our documents were obtained, have survived, and
of the other courts apparently nothing; but from the New York
admiralty court we have, besides records, a copious mass of papers
relating to the cases, preserved by an exceptionally careful assistant
register. By the care of Hon. Charles M. Hough, U.S. circuit judge,
these papers have been arranged, mounted, and bound in model fashion.
In interpreting the papers here printed, the editor has been much
assi