[5] Jacob Phoenix.
[6] Capt. Thomas Clarke, coroner of New York, was soon after arrested in Connecticut at the instance of Bellomont, who charged him with having privately deposited £10,000 worth of Kidd's treasure with a man at Stamford. Clarke promised restitution. N.Y. Col. Docs., IV. 595, 793; Calendar of Council Minutes, pp. 143, 144, 164.
[7] Not Oyster Bay, but Oyster-pond Bay, near Orient.
80. Sarah Kidd to Thomas Payne. July 18, 1699.[1]
From Boston Prison, July the 18 day 1699.
Captain Payen:
After my humble service to your selfe and all our good Friends this cometh by a trusty Friend of mine how[2] can declare to you of my great griefe and misery here in prison by how I would desire you to send me Twenty four ounces of Gold and as for all the rest you have in your custody shall desire you for to keep in your custody for it is all we have to support us in time of want; but I pray you to deliver to the bearer hereof the above mentioned sum, hows[3] name is Andrew Knott.[4] And in so doing you will oblige him how is your
Sarah S K Keede
the bare hereof can informe you more at large.
[1] Public Record Office, C.O. 5:861, no. 4 XVIII. Captain Thomas Paine of Jamestown, R.I. (Conanicut Island), had come to Rhode Island in 1683, as a privateer with dubious papers. In 1690 he had defeated a body of Frenchmen at Block Island. He may have been an accomplice of pirates, as Bellomont charges in [doc. no. 85] (in which this is an enclosure); he was certainly one of the founders of Trinity Church, Newport.