Francis Hopkinson (1737 - 1791) signed document "In the Court of Admiralty of the State of Pennsylvania" also signed by William Wright. This is the deposition and statement of Wright, saying "he sailed on Board the said Schooner as a Seaman from the Island of Bermuda... she was bound for Portsmouth in Virginia and saith that on her passage she was captured by the Brigantine...called Nesbitt and that the said Negroes or Slaves were on Board said Schooner and were taken from on Board by the said James Forbes or by his order at sea, and further deposeth and saith that the said Schooner or Vessel....together with the said Slaves, called Baptice Smith, Joseph Blackborn... were at the time of the said capture the property of his Brittanick Majesty or of some Subject or Subjects of the said King..." From the Francis Hopkinson Family Archives