agreed to let him have a Passage and told him that he shou'd sailthe next dayin a day or two that
this Examinant with Intention to go on Board said Ship went to Port Royal, but that
the said Ship being not there in readyness, and this Examinant having received
Information that pursuit was making after him, went on Board asleep at Port
Royal Harbour bound for Port Morant which place this Examinant then
understood to be in one of the Windward Islands that he carried with him the
said Trunk with the residue of the said moneyand moneyand he Trusted the same to the care of the Captain
of said Sleep whilst this Examinant concealed himselfbetween the Deck of
said sleepin the Hould of the said Sleep, that some time Afterwards in the same
Evening this Examinant was taken into Custody on Board the said Sleep by the
Gunner of the Fort at Port Royal and the said Trunk was delivered by the
Captain of said Sleep to the said Gunner. And this Examinant Saith, that at the
time he delivered said Trunk to the care and Charge of said Captain the same was
Fastned with a Lock but at the time this Examinant said the same at the Gunner's
Room the Nails that Fastned the lock of said Trunk had been wrenck'd out and
the Bags of money taken therefrom, And this Examinant saith, that the two Bags of
money now Produced and Shewn unto him by Thomas Gray< no role > Merchant are the Bags of Money
that were in said Trunk at the Time when he delivered the same to the charge of said Captain
and also that a Shiped Silk Handkerchief now produced and shewn unto him by the
said Thomas Gray< no role > is this Examinant's Property, and that the same was in his Trunk
but that there was no Money Tied in it at the time that said Trunk was delivered to the
said Captain, And this Examinant saith, that the said Bags of Money now produced
to him by the said Thomas Gray< no role > were the Bags of Money taken by this Examinant
and said Isaac Hull< no role > out of the Box Intrusted to this Examinant to be delivered to
the Nottingham carrier as aforesaid, And further this Examinant saith not

Taken the dayThe above written
Examination, was taken and acknowledged
and the above Confess in made and Signed
by the said Thomas Bowers< no role > freely and voluntarily
without Compulsion and without Oath the day
and Year first within written before me}
G Ford.

Thomas Bowars< no role >

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