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Slate of Maryland, Saint Mary's County, to wit :
These are to certify that, Mordecai Jones, esq. before
whom the widiin deposition was made, and who in wit-
ness thereto appears to have subscribed his name, was at
the taking and subscribing the isanae, and now is one of
the justices of tbe peace of the stale, and for the county
aforesaid ; thereunto duly authorised, commissioned and
sworn, and that to all certificates of probates before him
made, and by him signed, due faith and credit is and oyght
to be given,, as-well in justice court, as thereout.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the public seal of office for Saint Mary's
county court, this twentieth day of May, annoque
Domini, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three..
Timothy Bowes,
ClerS of Saint Mary's County Courts
Protestation devant  Notaire du Capitaine <et de l'Equi-
page contre la Capture du Bâtiment le William.
By this publié instrument of protest, be it made-
. known 'and manifest unto all who shall see these presents,
or hear the same read, that on the eighteenth day of
May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven, hun-
dred and ninety three, before me, Ash ton Humphreys,
notary and tabellion- public, in and for the common-
wealth of Pcnsylvania, by lawful authority duly admitted
and sworn, dwelling in the city of Philadelphia, in tho
said commonwealth, personally appeared James Leggat,
late master of the ship William, now in this port of
Philadelphia ; John Whiteside, late chief mate of the
said ship ; James Ramsey, second «mate, and James
M-anson, boatswain, belonging to the said shin ; and'
Being severally sworn on the holy evangelists of Almighty^
God/ did' respectively depose, testify, declare, and say
in manner following, that is to say, that on of about
the sixteenth day, of February last, they sailed in and wkh
the said ship from Bremen, upon the river Weser, with
the. wind at north-east, bound on a voyage to .Maryland,.
in North ^America ; and on the twenty-second day of the."
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