, XI. 155, XXI. 74, XXV. 90. Dr. Benjamin Kennicott, in _The
Ten Annual Accounts of the Collation of Hebrew MSS. of the Old
Testament_ (Oxford, 1770), p. 161, mentions information from President
Cooper in New York "that Mr. Sampson Simson, a very worthy and
benevolent old Gentleman, of the Jewish persuasion, living in that
city, is in possession of a MS. of very great antiquity, containing
the whole Hebrew Bible"--on which see Ezra Stiles, _Literary Diary_,
III. 3, 32.]

1st. This Deponent saith that his Name is Phelipe Ybanes Aged thirty
seven years Born at St. Lucar[4] in Old Spain by Ocupation a Mariner
and subject to the King of Spain.

[Footnote 4: At the mouth of the Guadalquivir. Columbus sailed thence
on his third voyage, in 1498.]

2ly. That his first knowledge of Richd. Haddon and the Schooner
_Peggy_ was on the sixth or Seventh Day of December 1756. That he
first knew the Schooner called the _Virgin of the Rosary and Santo
Christo_ in the year 1756 when he bought her in Jamaica. That she
belonged to Port Trinity[5] on the Island of Cuba immediately before
the 6th and 7th Days of December 1756. He this Depon't being then
Commander of said Schooner having his Resident in the Havana with his
Family. That he was on board said Schooner on the 6th and 7th days of
December 1756 as Commander and Owner. That said Schooner was not then
Equipped to use Force in any manner but only as a trading Vessel. That
she had on board three small Guns unloaded and Six Swivel Guns, three
of which were Loaded with Ball in Case of Necessity to make Signals
but all in the Hold for Ballast, and fourteen Hangers,[6] which was
all the Arms on board. That he this Deponent was sole Owner of said
Schooner at that time. That when he this Deponent was met with by
Richd. Haddon on the 6th or 7th Day of December 1756, he[7] came from
Port Trinity but last from Port Banes[8] Eight Leagues from the Havana
in the same District where he touched and took in for Jamaica, where
he was Bound, two Passengers both Eng'h Subjects named Henry
Myerhoffer[9] and Willm. Abbot[10] Beside which he took in Eight
Spaniards. That they then made to the Number of Sixteen Spaniards on
board and two English, seven of which were Mariners. The Names of the
Spaniards were Don Phelipe Ybanes Capn. and Owner, Don Francisco
Garcia, Pasqual de Cordova, Don Geronimo de la Cal, Cayetano Peres,
Pablo Antonio Corea, Marcelino Marero, Silvestre Manuel de Castro,
Miguel de Fuen