[6] Two of the leading lawyers of the province. Read had been attorney general and was now a member of the council. Bollan, Governor Shirley's son-in-law, was for many years agent of Massachusetts in London.
[7] Col. Jacob Wendell (1691-1761), great-grandfather of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Born in Albany, of Dutch descent, he might naturally be invoked to aid Amsterdam owners.
[8] I.e., the bonds of the privateer; see [doc. no. 126], sect. XV.
[9] This privateer subsequently became a captain in the royal navy. He distinguished himself in both the naval expeditions against Louisbourg, in 1745 and in 1758. Charnock, Biographia Navalis, V. 412-414. See also [doc. no. 160], [note 1].
[10] The connection of the Scottish Mackays with Holland has been long and important. Aeneas Mackay, son of the Scottish Lord Reay, entered the military service of the Dutch Republic in 1684, and rose to be general of the Scots Brigade; and for a hundred years, as long as that organization continued to exist (The Scots Brigade in Holland, Scottish History Society, passim) there was always at least one Aeneas Mackay among its officers. In our own time Baron Aeneas Mackay was prime minister of the Netherlands. This shipmaster would be some humble member of the clan.
[11] I.e., to a Portuguese, neutral, port.
[12] See [doc. no. 141]. A pass from the Admiralty, which, in accordance with the treaties between Great Britain and the Dey of Algiers, English vessels entering the Mediterranean had to carry in order to be exempt from search by the Algerine corsairs. Such a pass, of 1750, is printed in Marsden, Law and Custom of the Sea, II. 347-348. A full set of ships' papers seems to have consisted, at least in Dutch practice, of a bill of health (see [doc. no. 197]), a sea-letter or let-pass (docs. nos. [129], [130]), a muster-roll (rôle d'équipage) or shipping-articles of the crew, and a clearance for the cargo.
[13] The British consul at Funchal, Richard Baker; see docs. nos. [140], [141].
[14] Lieut.-Gen. William Hargrave.
[15] Rear-Adm. Sir Chaloner Ogle, afterward distinguished in the Cartagena expedition, and admiral of the fleet. See [doc. no. 117], [note 14].