[12] See [doc. no. 63], [note 16], ante.
[13] See [doc. no. 65], [note 17].
[14] See [doc. no. 65].
[15] Monsoon.
[16] Reef.
[17] When this ship came back, richly laden, Philipse sent out a sloop to meet her, which off the New Jersey coast quietly unloaded all of her cargo but the negroes, and sailed with it to Hamburg. Cal. St. P. Cal., 1697-1698, p. 414.
[18] In 1690 he had commanded a ship in Sir William Phips's unsuccessful expedition against Quebec. For his connection with Kidd, see post, [doc. no. 85], [note 7].
[19] Such is Baldridge's tale of innocence, but Kidd told Bellomont that "Baldridge was the occasion of that Insurrection of the Natives and the death of the pirates, for that having inveigled a great number of the natives of St. Maries, men, women and children, on board a ship or ships he carryed and sold them for slaves to a French Island called Mascarine or Mascaron, which treachery of Baldridges the Natives on the Island revenged on those pirates by cutting their throats."
[20] Abraham de Peyster, a member of the New York council and an assistant judge of the supreme court.