s captain-general of Cuba from 1747 to 1760, when he became viceroy
of New Spain.]

[Footnote 2: In the same set of papers there is a deposition of
Marcelino Marero, born in the Canary Islands, forty-three years old,
almost identical in contents with that of Ybanez, doc. no. 187, and of
the same date.]

[Footnote 3: Bayamo.]

[Footnote 4: Cabanas.]

Before me
DIEGO DE GUITIERRES
Notary to the Governour

FRANCISCO CAVIGAL DE LA VEGA

We his Majestys Notary Publicks of the Number Admitted in this City
Certify that Don Diego Guitierres, by whom this Dispatch is
Authorized, is Notary to the Government and that Entire faith and
Credit may be given to all his Dispatches, Judicial and Extrajudicial,
Dated ut Supra.

ANTO'O PONCE MANUEL RAMERES CHRIST'O LEAL
Not'y Publick Notary Publick Not'y Publick

I Certify that the foregoing is a true Translated Copy of the Original
Spanish Exam'd by

GARRAT NOEL
Sworn Span'h Intep'r

_190. Deposition of William Haddon. November 16, 1759._

Province of New York.
Court of Vice Admiralty.

The Deposition of William Haddon who having been before Sworn and now
examined on the Interrogatories to be administered to witnesses to be
produced, Sworn and Examd. on the part and behalf of Thomas Miller and
Sampson Simpson, defendants, at the suit of the attorney General In
the name of our Lord the King Libbellant.

1st. To the First of the said Interrogatories this deponent saith that
his name is William Haddon, aged thirty eight years, his usually place
of residence is at New York, By occupation a schoolmaster[1] and a
subject to the King of England.

[Footnote 1: "At a commodious House ... in Bound Brook, Province of
East New Jersey, young Gentlemen are educated and boarded on
reasonable terms, by William Haddon, Professor of ab, eb, etc."
Advertisement in _New York Mercury_, Mar. 30, 1761. He taught there
seven years, then at Newark from 1768 on. _New Jersey Archives_, first
ser., XX. 548.]

2d. To the second Interrogatory this deponent saith that he knows
Richard Haddon, late commander of the private Sloop of war called the
_peggy_, that the said Richard Haddon is this deponents brother and he
has Known him as long as he has had knowledge.

3d. To the third Interrogatory this deponent Saith that he knew a
person called Don Philip, which this deponent supposes to be the same
person Philip Vanes, otherwise called Philip De Francois, otherwise