An edition was also published in London the next year and reprints in whole or in part have been made at Portland, Me., in 1810; Edinburgh, 1815; Boston, 1850; and Marblehead in 1910.
This interesting recital of the veritable experiences of a New England man on board notorious pirate vessels, together with other adventures that fall to the lot of but few men, is here reprinted as a document of great value in corroborating many of the statements appearing elsewhere in this volume in chapters devoted to the exploits of Low, Lowther and Spriggs.
Ashton’s Memorial.
AN
HISTORY
OF THE
Strange Adventures,
AND
Signal Deliverances,
OF
Mr. Philip Ashton,
Who, after he had made his Escape from the Pirates, liv’d alone on a Desolate Island for about Sixteen Months, &c.
WITH
A short Account of Mr. Nicholas Merritt, who was taken at the same time.
To which is added
A SERMON on Dan. 3. 17.
By John Barnard, V. D. M.
——We should not trust in our selves, but in God; ——who delivered us from so great a Death, and doth deliver; in whom we trust, that he will yet deliver us.
II. Cor. I. 9, 10.
BOSTON, N. E. Printed for Samuel Gerrish, at his Shop in Corn-Hill, 1725.
FOOTNOTES
[129] Among the thirteen vessels taken were the following from Marblehead, viz.:—schooner Milton, Philip Ashton, master; shallop Jane, Nicholas Merritt, master; schooner Rebeckah, Thomas Salter, master; schooner Mary, Thomas Trefry, master; shallop Elizabeth, Robert Gifford, master; schooner Samuel, William Nichols, master.
[130] “If it be so, our God whome we serve, is able to Deliver us from the Burning Fiery Furnace, and He will Deliver us out of thine Hand, O King.”
[131] Ashton was the son of Philip and Sarah (Hendly) Ashton, and was born in Marblehead, Aug. 12, 1702. He married, first, Jane or Jean Gallison, Dec. 8, 1726, who bore him a daughter Sarah, baptized Dec. 3, 1727, in the First Church, the mother dying a week later.
On July 15, 1729, he married, second, Sarah Bartlett and they had Eliza, baptized Oct. 25, 1730; Philip, baptized May 28, 1732; William, baptized Oct. 20, 1734; Thomas, baptized Apr. 17, 1737 and Jean, baptized Aug. 15, 1742. The date of his death is not known.