[4] See [doc. no. 65], [note 18], and [no. 74], [note 2].
[5] Francis Dowell, of Wapping Street, Charlestown, mariner. T.B. Wyman, Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, I. 301.
[6] Peleg Sandford, governor of Rhode Island 1680-1683.
[7] Andrew Knott's examination shows that he and Gillam had known each other in Virginia years before, and had sailed together under a privateer captain, making many prizes in the South Sea, possibly in the expedition narrated in docs. [no. 44] and [no. 45]. See also [doc. no. 68], paragraph 16 and [note 18].
[8] Edward Davis of London, originally boatswain of the Fidelia (see [doc. no. 90]), whose deposition is in Commons Journal, XIII. 28.
[9] Commons Journal, XIII. 26; narrative of William Cuthbert, late gunner of the ship Charles the Second.
[10] John Cutler was a Dutch surgeon named De Messenmaker, who on settling in New England translated his name into Cutler. His marriage record in the town records of Hingham begins, "Johannes Demesmaker, a Dutchman (who say his name in English is John Cutler)", etc.
[11] Joseph Frazon, died 1704, buried in the Jewish cemetery at Newport. The anonymous author of the anti-Mather pamphlet, A Modest Enquiry (London, 1707, reprinted in Mass. Hist. Soc., Coll., fifth ser., VI.), p. 80*, accuses Cotton Mather of having "attempted a Pretended Vision, to have converted Mr. Frasier a Jew, who had before conceiv'd some good Notions of Christianity: The Consequence was, that the Forgery was so plainly detected that Mr. C.M. confest it; after which Mr. Frasier would never be perswaded to hear any more of Christianity".
[13] Samuel Cranston, governor of Rhode Island 1698-1728.