The original painting really represents the town at a somewhat later date. Reproduced from a lithograph copy made in 1864, now in the George L. Shepley Library, Providence, R. I.

[ Fishing ship and station on the Newfoundland coast about 1710] 314

From an insert in Herman Moll’s “Map of North America,” London [1710-1715], in the possession of John W. Farwell.

[ Fac-simile of the title-page of Rev. Cotton Mather’s “The Converted Sinner ... a Sermon Preached ... in the Hearing and at the Desire of certain Pirates, a little before their Execution,” Boston, 1724] 324

From an original in the library of the American Antiquarian Society.

[ Fac-simile of the title-page of “The Tryals of Sixteen Persons for Piracy,” Boston, 1726] 328

From an original in the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

[ Fac-simile of the title-page of Rev. Benjamin Colman’s “Sermon preached to some miserable Pirates,” Boston, 1726] 334

From an original in the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

[ Fac-simile of the title-page of Rev. Cotton Mather’s “Vial poured out upon the Sea,” Boston, 1726] 336