eable to his said Contract this Deponent
sailed in the said Ship in quality of Second Captain to Cadiz and from
thence to Port Orient[4] in France and thence returned to Cadiz and
from thence proceeded to Cape Francois[5] in the Island of Hispaniola;
That the said Francis Pienoir was Captain and Commander of the said
Ship during the said Voyage; That from Cape Francois aforesaid this
Deponent sailed in the said Ship on an Intended Voyage for Nantz in
France and on the 26th day of Decr. last, New Stile, the said Ship
[was] attacked upon the High Seas in or near the Latitude of 31 deg.
North by two English Privateer Vessels, of one of which Captain
Alexander Kattur was Commander[6] and Captain John Dougal was
Commander of the other, but does not Know the Names of the said
Privateers but has heard that one of them was Called the _Warren_ and
the other the _George_; That the Engagement between the said Two
Privateers and the said Ship _Lewis Joseph_ continued for about five
or Six Hours; That at the Beginning of the said Engagement there were
fifty two Men in and belonging to the said Ship _Lewis Joseph_ but
four of them were Killed in the said Engagement vizt. the said Captain
Pienoir, another Captain who was a Passenger and two common Sailors,
and three of the Men belonging to the said Privateers were also Killed
in the said Engagement as this Deponent afterward heard and believes;
That at the time of the said Engagement the said Ship _Lewis Joseph_
was mounted with Eighteen Guns; That the said Ship _Lewis Joseph_ was
then taken by the said two English Privateers; That the said Captain
Pienoir and all the Mariners and Comp'y belonging to the said Ship
_Lewis Joseph_ at the Time of her said Caption were Subjects of the
French King; That the same Ship _Lewis Joseph_ was then Laden with
divers Goods Wares and Merchandizes.

[Footnote 4: Now called Lorient.]

[Footnote 5: Now Cap Haitien.]

[Footnote 6: The _Warren_; see note 3, above, and _Pa. Mag. Hist._,
XXIV. 350.]

To the Second Interrogatory;

That the said Ship _Lewis Joseph_ at the time of her said Caption
wholly belonged to Monrs. John Petel a Merchant then residing at St.
Malo and a Subject of the French King; That part of the Goods Wares
and Merchandizes wherewith the said Ship was laden at the time of her
said Caption belonged to the said Captain and the officers of the said
Ship and the residue thereof to divers Merchts. and others at St.
Malo's, Nantz and