From Herman Moll’s “Atlas Minor,” London, 1732, in the Harvard College Library.

[ Capt. Henry Morgan, the buccaneer, before Panama] 14

From an engraving in Johnson’s “General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Pyrates,” etc., London, 1734, in the Harry Elkins Widener Collection, Harvard College Library.

[ Fac-simile of the title-page of Rev. Cotton Mather’s “Pillars of Salt, An History of Some Criminals Executed in this Land,” Boston, 1699] 26

From an original in the Harvard College Library.

[ Richard Coote, Earl of Bellomont, Governor of Massachusetts, 1699-1700] 42

From a rare engraving in the Harvard College Library.

[ View of Castle William, Boston harbor, about 1729, and a man-of-war of the period] 54

From the only known copy of an engraving probably by John Harris, after a drawing by William Burgis.

[ An armed sloop near Boston lighthouse in 1729] 62