That this Deponant is not certain whether the sale so intended was first mentioned to him by William Deane or Mr Wells but this Deponent well remembers that M' Wells advised with him on the measure and that this Deponent approved of it as legal in itself and as an act of Humanity towards Deane and his children whom he considered as in the greatest distress and this Deponent further saith that to prevent any misinterpretation that might be made of the said intended sale to the Disadvantage of Mt Wells he advised that the Judge of the admiralty should be informed of the said intended sale before the same should be carried into Execution That this Deponent waited upon the Judge of the Admiralty with M' Wells as he believes and informed him, thereof accordingly and that it was the only means which the Deponent could think of to prevent the said William Dean and his sons from suffering or perishing for want of sustenance or something to that effect That to the best of this Deponents Rememberance the Judge of the Admiralty made no objection nor shewed the least dislike thereto. And this Deponent saith That the transfer to M* Well's of the effects of the said William Deane was drawn by one of the Deponents clerks and that he verily believes from what passed at that time and from the Behaviour and. Conversation of Mt Wells that it was an Act of Benevolence and Humanity in Mr Wells to Deane and his two sons without which this Deponent verily believes they must have suffered greatly unless they had been relieved by Charity as they appeared to this Deponent to ' be strangers and Friendless in this City and further this Deponent saith not. . Jas Duane.