[2] Fort Dauphin, at the southeast point of Madagascar, built by the French.
[3] Josiah Rayner was associated with Tew, later with Every; Fletcher had, for a bribe, it was said, released his chest of treasure brought to New York.
[4] Spikes.
[5] In April, 1693, this Coats, in a ship now called the Jacob, anchored near the east end of Long Island, and sent men to bargain with Governor Fletcher for permission to enter and for protection. They promised the governor £700 and secured protection, though in the end the owners gave him the ship instead. N.Y. Col. Doc., IV. 223, 310, 386-388; Cal. St. P. Col., 1697-1698, pp. 227-228.
[6] Frederick Philipse (1626-1702), the richest trader in New York, but perhaps not the most scrupulous; see Henry C. Murphy, in his edition of the Journal of a Voyage to New York in 1679-80 of Jasper Danckaerts, pp. 362-365. The ship in which the two Labadist missionaries, Danckaerts and Sluyter, came to America was also named Charles and owned by Philipse. It was in this year 1693 that Governor Fletcher instituted for him the Philipse Manor. Mary Philipse, who won the affections of young Major George Washington, was his great-granddaughter. It was said that Baldridge's establishment in Madagascar was sustained by Philipse's capital, to obtain for the latter a share in the profits of piracy. Cal. St. P. Col., 1697-1698, p. 108.
[7] Hoes.
[8] See [doc. no. 63], [note 16], ante.
[9] See [doc. no. 65].
[10] Another of those commissioned by Fletcher. Having no guns, the vessel must have been intended for illegal trade rather than for warfare.
[11] Or Wake.