COBBESPONDENOB, ETC. 



ponent, with James Martin, seaman, put on board to take charge of 

 her: thai on the night of the -'1st instant, between the hours of 11 and 

 12, it being Martin's watch, he, this deponent, was awoke from sleep by 

 the roll oi' the vessel; thai he attempted to go on deck, but found the 

 companion doors shut ; this deponent then broke open the companion 

 doors, armed himself, and went on deck, and ordered Captain Wood- 

 ward, the master of the boat, then at the helm, to put the boat about; 

 he refused; Martin was rowing; this deponent went forward and 

 ordered him to drop the oar; but he would not, till this deponent 

 threatened to cut his head off if he did not; while this deponent was 

 thus endeavoring to get the vessel about, Winslow and Martin sud- 

 denly sprung upon him, and obliged him to go below. This deponent 

 was then brought to this place in the said boat Pilgrim against his 

 will, and against all the exertions in his power to make. 



his 



William X Paine. 



mark. 



Benjamin Scott, one of the hands on board the Pilgrim,, on oath, 

 saith : That the foregoing statement of Mr. William Paine is, accord- 

 ing to his best knowledge and belief, substantially true; that he was 

 below when Mr. Paine armed himself and went on deck, and soon 

 after he returned, and said he had been overpowered and his arms 

 taken from him; that the Pilgrim was taken by Woodward and 

 Winslow, aided by Martin, to Lubec. This deponent further saith 

 that Woodward and Winslow both acknowledged that Mr. Paine dis- 

 charged his duty to the utmost of his power; that superior force alone 

 caused him to surrender his arms. 



Benjamin Scott. 



State of Maine, Washington, ss. 



To all to whom these presents may come: Know ye, that on this 

 twenty-second day of June, anno Domini 1824, before me, Solomon 

 Thayer, notary public, by legal authority duly commissioned and 

 sworn, and residing at Lubec, personally appeared the aforenamed 

 William Paine and Benjamin Scott, and made solemn oath that the 

 declarations by them personally made and signed were just and true. 



In testimonium veritatis, 



Solomon Thayer, Notary Public. 



New Brunswick, Charlotte County, ss. 



Halifax, September 2, 1824. 

 I, the undersigned, one of his Majesty's justices of the peace in and 

 for the said county, residing in Campo Bello, do hereby certify that 

 on the twenty-third day of June, 1824, William Paine, the person in 

 the annexed instrument mentioned, appeared before me, and declared 

 the facts therein contained, which appear to me to be correct. That 

 Solomon Thayer is a notary public for the county of Washington, 

 in the Province of Maine, United States, duly appointed, and that 

 full faith and credit may be given to his attestation. 



D. Owen, /. P. 



Richard IIoare, Commander of his Majesty's sloop Dotterel, 



