[7] Edward Cheesman, carpenter, was taken out of a ship bound from Virginia to London, Mar. 25, preceding.
[8] The French island now called St. Pierre. It will be observed that the first count in the indictment against William White and others, [doc. no. 121], presents in a somewhat different, and apparently more correct, order the transactions described in the first two counts of the present indictment.
[9] 150 tons, and of a value of £1000, according to the indictment of White and others.
[10] About October 4; ibid.
[11] Mary, value £500; ibid.
[12] October, £500, and the same value for the Portuguese brigantine and the Content; ibid.
[13] Valued at £1000 in the later indictment.
[14] Apr. 4.
[15] "Understanding that she belong'd to Mr. Minors at Newfoundland, with whose Vessel they first went off a pyrating, a Qualm of Conscience came athwart his [Phillips's] Stomach, and he said to his Companions, 'We have done him Injury enough already'; so order'd the Vessel immediately to be repair'd, and return'd her to the Master". Johnson, second ed., p. 405. The schooner was the Good-will of Marblehead, Benjamin Chadwell.
[16] The Squirrel, of Annisquam, a fine new vessel, to which Phillips transferred. Babson, History of Gloucester, pp. 286, 287.