Note (retour) — III.
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To the fifth and sixte he sayeth That Mounsr. Shamplye835 caused this examinate with twenty nyne persons more, men woemen and children to imbarque themselves in the Interrogate Pinnace and gave this examinate order to carrye them to Gaspie and there to leave them twenty of them amongst the savages to get victualls amongst them and to give them two coates of beaver a peece to buy victualles with, and with the rest to seeke passage for France to make knowne in what necessitye they in the Fort were, And this he affirmeth uppon his oath to be true who was Captayne of the sayde Shalloppe. (State Paper Office, Colonial Papers, vol. V, art. 35.)