ogs.]

[Footnote 25: Deep-sea lead (for sounding).]

In Obedience to a Warrant Comeing from the County Court held in Boston
the 30th day of Aprill 1673, Unto us whose names are hereunder
written, for to take an Inventory of the Estate and goods in the Shipp
_Providence_ of Falmouth, lately arived in Piscataqua River, etc., and
to Render an acco't thereof unto the present Deputy Governor by the
7th of May, wee haveing accordingly done the same (as time would
afford) Doe Signifie Unto the Honourable Deputy Governor, that the
before mentioned particulars are the whole, that to our certaine
knowleidg is come (in the said shipp) and that, according to the
wrighting at the beginning hereof, they are Secured in the said Fryers
hands and the shipp well mored in the harbour at the Great Island in
Piscataqua River.

NATHANIELL FRYER.
May the 5th, 1673. HENRY DERING.

_34. Examination of John Johnson. May 5, 1673._[1]

[Footnote 1: Suffolk Court Files, no. 1257, paper 18.]

The examination of John Johnson steersman of the frigott
_commonwealth_, Capt. Cornelius Lincourt Comd'r.

December the 15th their stile[2] they came out of Flushing in the
above sd Frigott with 20 gunns and ninety six men and boys, bound from
Flushing to the Canarie Island, and in their way they tooke a Londoner
bound from Malaga laden with fruit, which they sent to the Groyne,[3]
and the men they putt on shore at the canaries. from the Canaries we
sailed to the Cape de Verd Islands and from thence to Barbados, where
they tooke a small French sloope, and from thence we sailed to the
Capes of Verginia and in our way we mett with the _Providence_ of
Falmouth, which ship we tooke on the 15 day of Aprill, our Stile,[4]
in the latitude of the capes, about 30 Leagues to the Eastward. it
being a stormy night they drive away under a maine course to the
northward. for 2 days afterward they stood in againe to the capes but
could not see their frigott, so then we stood away for the Groine, and
meet with a small Londoner bound for Verginia, who came abord on us
for water, and we took the men being 5 and putt them in to the hold,
then he that was Master of the ship went on board the Londoner and
those men with him, whome the Londoner carried away, so then we
followed them but could not overtake him, so the night following the
English that were upon Decke conspireing with them in the hold, in the
morneing they tooke the ship from us, and br