[17] Afterward admiralty judge, 1728-1729, 1733-1747.
[18] Sable Island, south of Nova Scotia.
[19] John Phillips and James or Joseph Sparks. "Phillips' and Burrill's heads were brought to Boston in pickle"; Diary of Jeremiah Bumstead, May 3, 1724, in N.E. Hist. Gen. Reg., XV. 201.
[20] John Rose Archer was a seasoned pirate; he had served under the famous Blackbeard. Johnson, p. 399.
[21] Fillmore says, Narration, p. 18, that the court gave him Captain Phillips's gun, silver-hilted sword, silver shoe- and knee-buckles, and tobacco-box, and two gold rings that the pirate used to wear. As late as 1857, the gun was still in the possession of a cousin of President Fillmore's father. N.E. Hist. Gen. Register, XI. 144.
120. Trial of William Phillips and Others. May 12, 1724.
P.M. The Court met according to adjournment, and was opened by Proclamation,
And a Warrant issued out for the bringing into Court the Bodies of William Phillips,[1] Isaac Lassen, Henry Giles, John Baptis, Peter Taffery, Charles Ivemay, John Bootman, John Combes and Henry Payne, and they were accordingly brought to the Bar.
Then the Cryer made Proclamation for all Persons that Could Give Evidence for the King against the Prisoners at the Bar to Come into Court and they should be heard.
Then John Baptis and Peter Taffery, being French men, were remanded back to Prison in order to be tryed by themselves.