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Demanded the Captain (meaning said Jones) and thereupon presented two or three Guns or Small Arms at the Cabin door which obliged the said Jones to retire back & shut the Cabin Door after him, but believing there could be no safety for him there, he came upon Deck and the Indians immediately ordered him forward & then giving three Huzzas at the same time, One or two more of the Indians coming on Board, they cutt away the fasts, hoisted sail & forced the said Jones to steer the Vessell about three Leagues down the said River to a place called Cape Piziquite that the Indians there cast anchor & began to Plunder the said Deponents Vessell & stock and some of his Cargoe & then Ordered said Jones on Shore with one of his hands to wait on the Governor, as they called him, after which the rest of his men came on shore (being two) to the said Jones who said they were sent by the Indians, but they soon after made their Escape, which the Indians Perceiving, one of them came up to the Deponent & presented a Pistoll to his Breast several times, Loaded with a brace of balls, as the said Indians have told him before, threatened to shoot him; to prevent which the said Jones clos'd in upon him, whereupon the said Indian clubbed the Pistoll & threatened to knock his Brains out or something to that purpose and afterwards offered many other Outrages & Violences towards him – That about six hours after they came to an anchor At Cape Piziquite aforesaid This Deponent Declares That the said Indians ordered him on Board again & brought the aforesaid Vessell to Sail & forced him to steer her part of the way to a place called Cape Fourchu & there again they sent him ashore and at the same time brought a canoe full loaded with goods which they disposed of amongst themselves, and then they Plundered the said Jones Vessell of the rest of his Cargo except some Rum, Iron, Sadles Furs & other small goods to the value of about two hundred pounds New England money. That [then this] Deponent was put on shore at the afore said Cape Forchu & being detained there about nine hours & the Indians having plundered him of what they thought fitt, They gave leave to the Interpreter (as they said) to go & fetch his men from on Board Capt. Donnell who was then at Anchor about two leagues off at a place in the Gaspareaux River, in order to carry away his Vessell and at the same time the said Deponent stole away with him. And that he there mett Mons Maufils the Priest of Piziquit & about twenty of the Inhabitants who were all unarmed and that he Earnestly entreat them to go and assist him in the recovery of his goods from the Indians. It is true they went with him, but they seemed rather to joke & triffle with the Indians than to assist him either by persuasion or otherwise prevailing upon them to make him a Restitution of his Goods – Which assistance he thinks might reasonably be Expected from them, being English Subjects, when Robb'd & Plundered by seven or eight Indians, in the midst of so great a Village, whose Inhabitants had lately Sworn Allegiance to his Majesty.
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That this Deponent the same night having Carried his Sloop near to Capt. Donnells, He went on board of him & tarried there till morning, when he again mett with Mons. Maufils, & then Earnestly begged & Entreated of him to try again if the Indians would Restore him his Effects, & telling
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