[36] Thus Captain Bellamy's speech in 1717 to Captain Baer of Boston, whose sloop he had just sunk and rifled: "I am sorry that they [his crew] won't let you have your sloop again, for I scorn to do any one a mischief when it is not for my advantage; damn the sloop, we must sink her, and she might be of use to you. Though you are a sneaking puppy, and so are all those who will submit to be governed by laws which rich men have made for their own security—for the cowardly whelps have not the courage otherwise to defend what they get by their knavery. But damn ye altogether; damn them for a pack of crafty rascals, and ye who serve them, for a parcel of hen-hearted numbskulls. They villify us, the scoundrels do, when there is only this difference: they rob the poor under cover of law, forsooth, and we plunder the rich under protection of our own courage. Had you better not make one of us than sneak after these villains for employment." Baer refused and was put ashore.—"The Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates":129-130.
[37] "A Commercial Sketch of Boston," Hunt's Merchant's Magazine, 1839, 1:125.
[38] Colonial Documents, iv:790.
[39] Ibid., 678.
[40] "Hunt's Merchant's Magazine," 11:516-517.
[41] Allen's "Biographical Dictionary," Edition of 1857:791.
[42] Hunt's "Lives of American Merchants":382.
[43] Allen's "Biographical Dictionary," Edit. of 1857:227.
[44] Stryker's "American Register" for 1849:241.
[45] "The American Almanac" for 1850:324.