Three depositions about an altercation on the schooner Experiment, Boston, Joseph Davis, Master, Nov. 1, 1803. Attests to an altercation between two seamen on board the Experiment while at Madeira: "while all hands were employed in setting up the shrouds of the bowsprit, William Welcome the cook was holding on the tackle falls, a dispute arose between said Welcome and Alexander Anderson, a mariner . . . Struck each other and while they were clinched together in the fore shrouds . . .the cook cried murder and the crew of a Philadelphia Brig came and took him."