And another nation, called the Mahiggins, would come downe thither with three hundred skinnes more, every merchantable beaver skinne, beinge worth twentye shillinges at the leaste.

Dicto die.

John Johson of the parishe of Saint Botolphes Algate, London cittizen, and cordwayner 6.

of London, aged about 4-5 yeares, sworne before the wor"" William James, doctor of lawes, surrogate to the righte wor"" Sir Henry Marten, Knight judge of his Majesties highe court of the Admiralltye. •

To the ftirstinterreye: he sayeth, that about a moneth before Christmas laste past, the shippe the William of London (whereof William Trevore was master) was victualled and sett forth by master Cloberye, master Delabarr and master Morehead of London merchantes, on a voyage to Plymouth in New England, there to lande some passengers, and from thence to Hutsons

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: IL 79 river, betweene New England and Virginia, tliere to truclie awaye such goodes as shea carryed to the natives of those couutryes for beaver and other furrs; the premisses hee kaoweth to be true, beinge cooke of the said shippe, the said voyage. To the second he sayeth, that after the arrival! of the said shippe into Hutsons river, neere Manhattons forte (beinge inhabited by the Dutch ) the Governor comannded all her companye to leave their shippe, and to come uppe to the forte, where they stayed about an houre, and then returned abord theire shippe againe. And afterwards wente further upp into the river to trade, and there Jacob Jacobson Eikins, the factor of the said shippe (whoe was well knowne to the Dutch and also to the Indians) wente on shoare together with this deponente and some other of the said shippes companye, and landed diverse goodes to trucke with the Indians, and erected a tent for themselves to lodge in, and putt their goodes in, and after they had bine there in trade some fewe dayes, the Dutch came and pitched a tent there, likewise to hinder the trade of the Englishe.