Island of Jamaica, whereupon this Deponent determined
to go there in Quest of him in order to procure Satisfaction for the
Injury he had Received from him. That shortly after the Arrival of
this Deponent at the Havana, an English Man of War came into that
Port. That He this Deponent made Application to the Capn. for his
Advice and Assistance, who thereupon gave him a Certificate to the
Governour and the Admiral Stationed at Jamaica. That this Deponent
thereupon proceeded to Santa Lucea but said Rd. Haddon was sailed from
thence before this Deponent arrived there. That said Haddon was at
Santa Lucea fifteen Days as this Deponent was Informed. That he there
met with the two aforesaid Englishmen, that this Depont. had taken
Passengers in his Schooner, but were carryed away by said Richd.
Haddon. That this Deponent proceeded afterward with said Spanish
Schooner to Kingston on Jamaica and there made his Complaints to the
Governor and Admiral against Rd. Haddon.[17] That the said two
Englishmen who had been Passengers in said Spanish Schooner, did make
Oath before the Governor of Jamaica of the Transactions of said Rd.
Haddon his Officers and People. That the Exhibits now Shewn him marked
A No 1 and No 2 are the Affidavits lay'd before the Governor of
Jamaica in support of the Truth of the Complaints made by him this
Deponent against said Rd. Haddon, his Officers and People which this
Deponent brought with him from Jamaica to New York. That the Name
Subscribed to the Affidavit in the Exhibit marked A No 1 is his own
Hand Writing and attested as Expressed in said Instrument of Writing.
That said Henry Myerhoffer did Subscribe his Name to the Affidavit and
that he knows that to be his Hand Writing in the Exhibit marked A No
2, and that he attested the same in manner therein Expressed. That
Admiral Townsend in pursuance of the said Complaint and proofs
Dispatched a small Man of War under his Command in pursute of said
Richd. Haddon in order to bring said Schooner _Peggy_ into Port
Royal[18] on the Island of Jamaica aforesaid.

[Footnote 16: Now Lucea, at the northwest corner of the island.]

[Footnote 17: Henry Moore, lieutenant governor, was acting as
governor. The preceding governor, Vice-Adm. Charles Knowles, had
lately removed the seat of government from Spanish Town to Kingston.]

[Footnote 18: Port Royal, on the south side of Kingston harbor, was
the first capital of the island; but probably Ybanez means the
harbor.]