GASPAR FAJARDO.
JOHN GONSALES YANES.
VINCENT ANTONIO.
FRANCIS RODRIGUES.
FRANCIS TABIEL.
ANTONIO PEREDA.

7. The affidavit of the Spanish Sailors taken before James Abercromby,
Judge Advocat to the Army before Carthagene.[22]

[Footnote 22: In the summer of 1740, when the expedition against
Cartagena, under Vernon and Cathcart, was being planned, Capt. James
Abercromby was made judge-advocate-general to the military forces.
_Gent. Mag._, X. 358. This was the same Abercromby who afterward
failed so lamentably as commander-in-chief of the British forces in
North America, and at Ticonderoga, 1758.]

This day personally appeared before me Captain Seth Drummond of
Philadelphia and Commander of a Privatteer Sloop Called the _George_
bringing along with him three Spainards Called Geronimo Faxardo,
francisco Roderigues, and Antonio Pereda, who being duely Sworn by the
Siegn of the Cross, being the manner of their Nation, do Depose that
on the Twenty fourth of February last past, New Stile, a little to
leward of the Island of Aruba,[23] in the West Indies, they being in a
Snow come from the Island of Thenerife called the _Princess of Orange_
and Commanded by Capt. John Melidoni Loaded with wine, were taken by
the above Capt. Drummond and they further Depose that notwithstanding
their Said Captain Melidon had a Dutch passport and wore Dutch Colours
yet in reality the Said Snow and her Cargo did belong to Spainish
Merchants in the Said Island of Thenerife, and that they had no Dutch
man on board, on the Contrary all the Crew were Spainards except the
Said Captain, the Mate, and the Boatswain, and this They Depose by the
Interpretation of David Campbell, Commisary of the Stores of war and
provisions in the Brittish army before Carthagena; being for this
Effect duly Sworn. Dated at the Camp before Carthagena this Sixth Day
of April one thousand Seven hundred and forty one and of his Majesties
Reign the fourteenth.

[Footnote 23: Aruba lies in the southernmost part of the Caribbean,
off the Venezuelan coast and west of Curacao.]

Sworn before me JAMES ABERCROMBY,

Judge advocat to the army before Carthagene.

GERONIMO FAXARDO.
his
FRANCISCO [X] RODERIGUES.
mark
ANTONIO PEREDA'S mark [X]
DAVID CAMPBELL.

8. Translation of the Portlidge Bill[24] from the Spanish.

[Footnote 24: A portledge bill was a register of sailors' names and
claims for wages or allowances.]

Catalogue of the mens names a