[42] Now the town of Wellfleet.

[43] Suffolk County Court Files, No. 2539: 1.

[44] Elsewhere written Allen Chard.

[45] John Darby probably was one of the four pirates who were killed Oct. 4, 1689, in the fight with the Colony sloop “Mary,” Captain Pease, at Tarpaulin Cove. He had a wife and four children living at Marblehead. His estate was inventoried on June 17, 1690, and his widow on July 2, 1690, married John Woodbury of Beverly.

[46] These men were Corporal John Hill, John Watkins, John Lord, William Neff, William Bennett, James Daniels, and Richard Phips.

[47] Massachusetts Archives, Vol. CVII, leaves 277-279.

[48] In Hawkins’ deposition called a brigantine.

[49] Massachusetts Archives, Vol. XXXV, leaf 10a.

[50] Captain Loper was a Portuguese whaler and oysterman who had been on the Cape since 1665.

[51] Suffolk Court Files, No. 2539: 13.