item in original.]
5. To the fifth he said that as before mentioned he saw Caleb David
with two or three English, but did not know their Names and
Consequently is Ignorant if they are the same that are mentioned in
the Enquiry and the other particulars thereof.
6. To the sixth he said that he only knew Antonio Correa by sight, by
being in Don Phelipe Ybanes's Company, that he has Understood he was a
Mariner but can give no particular Account what trade he was Employed
in nor the Vessel in which he went at the time Referred to in the
Enquiry.
7 and 8. To the seventh and Eighth he said that he has no Interest nor
Expects any from the Determination of the Cause; that what he has said
and Declared is the truth; that he knows nothing more of these
Articles than what he has already Related, of all which he has made
Oath and Signed his Name to it, being forty-two years of Age.
JOSEPH DE VEGA.
Before me
JOHNFERN'O DEL VALLE
Ny. Pub.
_193. Declaration of Domingo de Armas. November 20, 1759._
In the City of the Havana on the 20th of November 1759, Before his
Honour Don Martin de Ulloa, of the Order of St. James, one of His
Majestys Council and Auditor Gen'l of said City, Appeared Domingo de
Armas, a Native and Inhabitant of this City, and having been sworn
according to the usual form by making the Sign of the Cross and
therebye promising to declare the Truthe, being Enquired According to
the Tenor of the Articles Contained in the Interrogatory inserted in
the foregoing Copy, he Answered as follows
1. To the first Article he said that he knows Don Phelipe Ybanes, a
Native of the Kingdom of Castele, and settled in this City ever since
the loss of the _Flora_, Commanded by Don Rodrigo de Torres, on the
Rocks of Florida, and Married here to a Neice of Doc'r Don Ambrosio de
Medrano; That he has seen the said Ybanes working in a Dwelling House
near the Great Bridges; that he and his Negroes were Employed at the
Kills making Charcoal and Lime; That he afterward came to this City
where he saw him several times but does not know what Employment he
had Excepting that he once heard him say that he had a Schooner in the
Coast Trade and that he would discharge the Master for not making so
good a Hand of Her as might be Expected, but it is now three Years
since he saw him in this City; That he then said he had been Robbed by
some English Privateers and that he was thinking to go to Recover the
Effects they had taken
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