The depositions of John Johnson, aged 18 yeers, steersman, and Henry Harris, aged about 24 yeers: These depon'ts testifie and say that they these deponts together with severall other seamen belonging unto Flushing, under the comand of Capt. Cornelious Lincort, Comand'r of the shipp _Slandt Welvaeren_, in English the _Comonwelth_, by vertu of a Comisson from his highness the prince of orange, we came up with the _Providence_ of Falmouth (who was bound to Virginia) in the Latitude of 36: and 40: and tooke her, which when taken these depon'ts and ten more were put on bord her to Keepe and secure her, and after wee had been on bord some hours, in the night wee lost our own shipp and saw them no more, and about seven dayes after wee came up with a Londoner and thinking to take him, four of our company went on bord in the night but never returned, and the next day after the English that belonged to the sd Ship _Providence_, and some of the other ship before mencioned that wee had on bord with us prisoners, rose and retook her and suppressed us and have brought sd shipp and us into Piscattay River. Grt Island[2] the 26th April 1673. taken upon oath by the persons above named before me [Footnote 2: Great Island, lying in the mouth of the Piscataqua River; at that time a part of Portsmouth, now New Castle, N.H.] ELIAS STILEMAN, Comisr.[3] [Footnote 3: From 1658 to 1679, under the Massachusetts government of New Hampshire, Elias Stileman was a magistrate and county commissioner for Portsmouth.] _30. Petition of Edward Bant. About April 28, 1673._[1] [Footnote 1: Suffolk Court Files, Boston, no. 1257, paper 1.] To the Honorable County Court now sitting in Boston The humble petition of Edward Bant on the Behalf of himself and the rest of the Company belonging unto the Ship called the _Little Barklay_, being five men in number, Humbly sheweth That they your Hon'rs petitioners, with the sd ship, were taken about Eighty Leagues East and by North from the Capes of Virginia by a Prize formerly taken by Capt. Cornelius Lincoint, commander of a ship belonging to Flushing called in English the _Commonwealth_. And the next day following the Commander of the said prize went on board the said _Barkley_, intending to have taken out her goods to put them on board his own vessell, whilst wee your petit'rs were on board his vessell as prisoners held in the Hold. And then the English Company remaining on board the sd. _Barkley_ surprized them, the sd. Commander and his Company, and sailed away with them. And about six hours after, your petitioners, together with the other English men belonging to the aforesd prize (when in possession of the English), made an Insurrection and took the ship by violence from the Dutch men and have brought her into the harbour at Puscataqua with eight Dutch men prisoners in her, and her goods and Loading secured in the wearhouse of Mr. Nathaniell Fryer.[2] [Footnote 2: Merchant and county commissioner in Portsmouth.]