Early History of Barbados. 329 
John Tuckerman, Shipp-carpenter, saith, he hath 
knowne the Barbadoes 20 or 21 yeeres, and that he 
went thither in Anno. 36, (when, beinge prompted, 
he said he was with Capt. HENRY POWELL, and 
that they were the first people which settled in the 
Barbadoes), and that there was noe plantacion then or 
before, to their knowledge nor any people, heathen, or 
Christian. That they left 30 men all English but 2 or 3 
Blackes. That he went in the shipp Wm. of London, 
of which Sr. Wm. CURTEENE and Partners were Owners, 
as this Examinate hath heard, and saith that Sr. Wm. 
paid this Examinate his wages, that they stayed at Bar- 
badoes about a month and then went to the Mayne to 
Desecubee, from whence they brought provision for the 
Island, vizt, cassador rootes, pines and potatoes, and 
alsoe 25 or 26 Indians, men, women and children to 
worke there; that after they came backe from the 
Mayne, there came 2 English Shipps with English 
people to plant there, knowes not whither they were 
sent from Sr. Wm. CURTEENE or not, saith that Capt. 
Powell's brother John was Admirall of those shipps 
and that they landed two Iron Gunns upon the Island 
and left them there, and Armesforthe rest of the people. 
John Cleere, Boatswaine of Capt. Henry Powell's 
shipp, afterward with JOHN POWELL saith, that JOHN 
TUCKERMAN and he went togither to the Barbadoes 
about 20 or 21 yeeres agoe, and that there was not any 
people then there nor any ground cleered, but what they 
cleered themselfes, that they stayed awhile at the Barba- 
does, and then left some 30 or 40 men there English, and 
tenn negroes taken in a prize, and that they went from 
Barbadoes to Desecubee, and brought thence cassador 
