Robert Wisett< no role > Gentleman Clerk to the Committee of
Warehouse belonging to the Honorable East India Company
taken the 11 Nov 1785 Says on Oath The said Committee have
late by received Information of Various Species of Good imported
by the said Company have been Stolen from their Ships lyms
in the River Thames such as Red wood Sapain Wood Tumench
Salt Petre Etc

Rob Wissett< no role >

Jadah Botibol< no role > late of Narrow Street Ratcliff now at No 5
Prosper Bothbol< no role > of Duke Street Aldgate dealer in Ostrich Leether
says he knows One of the Prisoners present who says his Name is Charles
Young< no role > well and that on the 17th ofOctSepr last he came to the House
of this Informant situate as aforesaid about the Hour of Three
in the Morning and called him up. That himself and Levg Phillips< no role >
his partner went down Stairs and let him in when the said Charles
Young said he had some Red wood to sell Says they agreed to give
him half Guinea be hundred Weight for the same That said Charles
Young and Four Other men landed the said Wood which they Weighed
and was of the Weight of Fourteen hundred weight in Thirty four Sticks Says he
went to Mr. Ford of Broad Street St. George Middlesex and when he returned
his Wife Either acquainted him That Charles Young< no role > had been there and had
brought Eight [..] Sticks more of the same sort of Wood with another man
who was Tall and in a Blue Jacket That said Eight Sticks weight Two hundred weight
saystheyhis said partner paid Charles Young< no role > Seven Guineas for the first parcel The other not
paid for Says the said Charles Young< no role > and the said Sall man came into his house
soon after he returned from Mr. Ford when it was day light when the saidsheEight
Sticks of Red wood were weighed in their presence and agreed to pay them for the same at
another time Says he Verily beleives One other of the Prisoners present
who says his name is John Power< no role > was one of the said Men who came with
the said Charles Young< no role > at about Three of the Clock in the Morning of the 17 ofOctSep last
with the said Thirty four Sticks of Red wood

Judah Botibel< no role >

Andrew Borgeson< no role > at No.12 Dean Street Shadwell Custom house Officer
on his Oath says on Saturday Morning the 17th. of Sep that about the hours of Four
or Five he said Charles Young< no role > outthatanother man who he Verily beleives to be John Power< no role >
carry some Wood which appeared to him to be the same sort of Wood which he saw at this
office same morning [..] take the Sameintoout of a Boat which Boat had a Shull in
her marked Young and land the same on the wharf of Judah Botibel in Narrow Street
Wm Satchfeild< no role > apprentice to his Father Richard Setchfield< no role > of Ratcliff Crok Waterman
says On the 11 Sep 1785 About the hour of Stive he sawCharge [..] Thos other who does not
over about take some Word out of a Boat at Ratcliff Crok in which bafat was Charles Young< no role > and carried
the lord Wood undo [..] the wood which was in the [..] said carry that same to the Wharf of the Laced
[..] shall [..]

Taken and Sworn this 11th. of Nov 1785
Before us John Staples< no role >
Peter Green< no role >