To the first interreye. hee sayeth, that within the time interrogate William Clobery, David Morehead and John de la Barr, of London merchants, att their owne proper costs and chardges did freighte, victuall and sett forth the interrogate shippe, the William of London (whereof William Trevore was master) and did lade diverse goodes abord her, with intent, that she sould goe to Hutsons river in New England, within the dominions of the Kingh of England, to trade and trucke away such goodes, as she carryed to the natives of those countries, for beaver skinnes and other skinnes and furrs; the premisses hee knoweth to bee true, for that hee was factor for the said merchants in that voyage.

80 NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. To the second hee sayeth, that the said shippe, the William arrived att the forte, called Manhatton, als Amsterdam, in the said Hutsons river, uppon the twelvth daye of Aprill, last past ; and sayeth, that the entrance of the said river is in the latitude of fourtie degrees and a halfe or thereaboutes, and in longitude aboud one and fortie degrees and a halfe. And after theire arrival! neere that forte, this deponente sente the Chirurgeon of the said shippe on shoare to the said forte, to intreate the Governor to come abord the said shippe the William. Where uppon the said Governor bad the chirurgeon to comannde the master of the said shippe and this axiadate beinge the factor to come on shoare to the fort, and to aske them, if ;