SAMUEL Lee, of Elizabeth-Town, boatman, being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, deposeth and saith, that on Sunday the 5th inst. he (at the request of Ichabod B. Barnet, Esq:) sail'd from Elizabeth Town aforesaid to New York, in the boat or sloop he usually goes in, the said Barnet going as a hand with him; that he arriv'd there the same evening; that while they were on their passage, said Barnet inform'd this deponent, that he must make haste to unload his Boat as soon as he should arrive at New York, for that a vessel was arrived at the Hook from the West Indies, and that he wanted this deponent to go with him with his boat, and take some goods out of her; ー that said boat was unloaded at New York on Monday morning, and immediately thereafter this deponent, and the said Barnet, sail'd with the said boat for Sandy Hook; that at the dusk of the evening of the same day they came along side of a ship, which this deponent believes was the Beulah, and about 8 o'clock he was told he might go to bed, which he accordingly did, and went to sleep  about 12, was awakened, and desired to put off from said ship, and make sail, which accordingly was done; that he saw the said Barnet, with Mr. John Murray and one Graham, his clerk, were then on board his boat; that on Tuesday morning they touched on Staten-Island, where Mr. [John] Graham landed, but no goods were landed there; that on Wednesday morning [March 8] about 1 o'clock they came alongside the store of said Barnet, at Elizabeth-Town, where they the said John Murray, Ichabod B. Barnet, and this deponent, landed and stor'd in the said Barnet's store, as near as he can remember, the following goods, to wit, a small bale, a box about three feet long, one do. about a foot square, the contents of which are unknown to this deponent; also a quantity of sail duck, a number of bolts of oznabrugs, about half a dozen pieces of linen, and some pieces of linen cloth, which this deponent supposeth to be drilling; which goods in the whole, this deponent thinks were in quantity about one ton and an half, or not exceeding two tons ー And this deponent saith, that said goods must have been taken out of said ship, and put on board said boat, while he was below as aforesaid, as there were no goods on board his boat when he left New York to go to said ship; and further the deponent saith, that he did not sleep so sound but that he heard the noise of people working upon the deck, and that when he was called up as aforesaid, and had come upon deck, he perceiv'd the hatches of his boat open, and the said goods then lying in the hatchway. ー And further the deponent saith not.

Sworn at Elizabeth Town this 13th day of March 1775, before me,

John Blanchard, Alderman.