Between Eight and Nine this Night the Ship run ashore, the Wind at E. S. E. and a moderate Gale. The Mate being then in his Cabbin, and hardly done bleeding, got on the Deck, tho' badly able, and ordered the Masts to be cut away, which we did, and by God's Assistance got all ashore, it being a desolate Land, about Three Leagues from the Main. We then steer'd W. and by S. so that if we had miss'd it we should have run ashore on the Main. This Island is called by the Name of _Boon Island_. We remained on it Twenty-four Days, and suffered a great deal of Hardship; at which time we were fetched off by a _Piscataqua_ Boat, and carried ashore. Some Days after the Master drew up a Protest, which the Mate and Boatswain signed, the Mate being then very ill with a Flux and Fever, and the Boatswain and _George White_ declares, That the Protest was false, and hardly a Word of Truth in it, but for fear of being put out of his Lodging, he then being very Sick and Lame, sign'd it. As soon as the Mate recover'd, we all and every of us declare, and give our Oath, That this is the real Truth, and the said Master's Protest to be false; which we now before the Worshipful Justice of the Peace disavow and give our Oaths, That this is the Truth and that if the said Master had taken the Mate's Advice, the Ship, with God's Assistance, might have been in _Boston_ Harbour several Days before she was lost. _Christopher Langman_, Mate. _Nicholas Mellin_, Boatswain. _George White_, Sailor. Christopher Langman, Nicholas Mellin, _and_ George White, _personally appeared before me the Subscriber, one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace at_ Portsmouth _in the Province of_ New Hampshire _in_ New England, _and Member of Council within the same, this 9th Day of_ February, 1710-11. _and made Oath to the Truth of what is above written, Captain_ Dean _at the time of taking this Oath being present_. Samuel Penhallow.