The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-12-21
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BY this public infiruu,ept, be i, known ,c all whom,
the fame doth may concern, That !, Henry fIll
Jun Conlul of the United States of America for the
Hand IF Cuba, rrGdent at Havana, do hereby GER
tify, thar the day Of the date hereof, before
Perionay came and appeared John l.. Cranaon, late
matter Of the fehooner Caroline of Charlelon, who
being by duly fworn upon the holy evangeliRs of
Almighty God, did folemnly depofe and declare that
the 9th day of April Ian he failed and departed
in and with the iaii fehooner from Charleton afore
fad, with pailengers, bound for St. Thomas, where
he arrived on tire firft day of May following That
he failed from thence on the fourth, with bal!aR
bound 1agpra, and arrived of the fad port on the
10Th, and continued laying off and until the 18th.
That his fails ben. very much iplit, and the. vefel
stherwiie in bad ts.e, and not being able to OBJ
tain permiiion to enter faid port, he determined to
bear away for the fri port be could make, and on
the day following captured by his Britannia ma
jefty's hip of war Fortune, Henry Vancitart COM
n,ander, who took, out him, the deponent, and his
crew. and took poaetioH Of the faid ichooner which
he armed as tender to cruize of Curacao. 1'ha,
on the 25th the iaid fchooner delivered up 70
him. bsng Pundered of the boat oars, anchors, Cores
&c. That being very much in. want of repairs he
thought it MOI prudent, well for the preiervation
OF the faid vefel and their lives, to procure
hPPlies, which they likewiie food very much in
need OF, to bear away for jamaica and the goth of
N due form made his proteit.
That he failed from thence (after hayng) received
the neeeHary repairs and fupplies, and having on
board twenty puncheons rum, the property as he We
rly believes, Of Andrew Ker, of Char!eonaforefaid
acitizen of the United States the 9th day of July
following bound for Charleton aforefaid, and on the
18th was boarded by felucca pirate commanded by
one Paul Cazafrauca, who took from him all the vef
tefs papers and all his letters, &C. and ALTO pocion
OF faid fehooner as prize, with which he proceeded
10 Puna Fuera, about four leagues from Cape Anto-
MO, where he came to anchor. That he there I'M
loaded faid veiiel and fupplied the ffhermen who
were there, with fome of the rum belonging to the
fad cargo That they continued there until the e3d
following, when he fent the faid fchooner with the
iaid dePonent and crew, 20 MaDtua Pavola where he
arrived on the fame day; and he, the deponent with
laid crew. remained there until the 9th day of Au-
guF, infant without clothes money, all of which,
and every thing ellie, except three hirs they
were robhsd Of by the faid captors. That he there
procured boat, and upon the pronife of paying one
hundred dollars, brought this port of HAVANA
where they arrived on the 18th inf.
That he, the deponent, Immediately dfpatched a
memorable to his exceuency the Governor, eating the
srcumftanees and praying for the reoratien of faid
vsfel and CARGO TO which faid memorial he has re-
seived no reply, and of opinion that the fame will be
taken no notice of.
And on this fame day ALTO perfonally appeared be.
and John Judfon, faanen, late of and belonging to
faid fchooner, who being by me feveray duly fSorn
upon the holy evangelfs. of Almighty God, did TO-
ennny dePofe thar all and every the matters and ia Cts
relating to the voyage aforeaid and the captures a
foreiaid, are in every reipea true.
And the faid deponent, John l.. Cranfton did upon
his arrival in due time and FORM note and enter with
me- the faid eonful, his protect in the pren,fes, and
now requires of me to make this public aa thereof,
refervng himef the privilege Of farther extending
the fame, or to make any other in the premes as oc-
CaGon may require.
Wherefore, tie Gid John L. Cranaon doth, and l.,
the faid eonfa, at his reqnef, do, by thef prefes,
moft foemny and publicly protect as well againe the
feas gales of wind and bad weather the fad fchconer
experienced on the faid voyage, as againa the COM
nandcr, officers and crews of the aid fp of war For
rune and felucca pirate for the captures, plnder and
detention aforeiad, and for all coas, damages Ioes
aud e1Pences already and which fs or may be here
after ifained thereof the end that the
lame be borne by thole whom of right it fall be-
long, to be adufed and recovered in time ard race
convenient.
Done and protected at HAVANA aforefaid.
(SgneD
JOHN L. CRANSTON.