was
well Wrote. That he is thirty Six years of Age. to which he set his
Hand and his Honour, his Rubric of which I give Testimony.

HERON'O JOS'H MEDRANO.

Before me

JUANFERN'O DEL VALLE.
N'y Pub.

_192. Declaration of Don Joseph de la Vega. November 19, 1759._

Immediatly after appeared before the Lieut. Auditor Gen'l Don Jos'h de
la Vega, an Inhabitant of this City, and being sworn by making the
sign of the Cross according to form of Right and promising to say the
truth, Being Enquired according to the Tenor of the Article[s]
Comprehended in the Interrogatory and Inserted in the foregoing Copy,
said as follows--

1. To the first he said that he has known Don Phelipe Ybanes about
twenty years, a Native of Spain and an Inhabitant of this City, having
remained here after the loss of the _Flora_[1] and Married Dona
Eugenia Suarez, Neice of Doc'r Don Ambrosio de Medrano, that he has
seen him taking care of a Herd Yard belonging to the said Doc'r, and
at a small Dwelling House Contiguous to it said Ybanes had Kills for
making Charcoal and Lime, in which Employ he continued some years. He
afterward saw him in this City Employed in buying and selling tile
about two years and a half or three years agoe but does not know where
he was when absent.

[Footnote 1: The reference is probably to the frigate _Floridana_,
which foundered off the Cuban coast in the hurricane of July 15, 1733,
which destroyed sixteen ships of the Havana fleet of Don Rodrigo de
Torres. Fernandez Duro, _Armada Espanola_, VI. 242-243.]

2. To the second he said that he does not Remember to have heard (but
on one occasion about two years and a half agoe) said Ybanes say that
he had a Schooner of his Own and that making a Voyage in her he was
Robbed by some Englishmen, but did not say where he was bound to nor
any other thing particular relating to what is Contained in the
Enquiry, for which Reason and not having any knowledge of the said
Schooner he cannot give any Acco't of them.

3. To the third he said that he knew Caleb David in this City about
the months of March or April in the year 57, having seen him at the
House of Elizabeth Berrow the Irish Woman, where he was Informed that
he was come with his Wife and some other English People in a Long
Boat, having been cast away on the Coast of Campeche,[2] nor does he
know that he had ever been in this City before nor what he came about.

[Footnote 2: Yucatan.]

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