[11] George Clarke, lieutenant-governor 1736-1743.
[12] Newcastle's letter of Dec. 4, 1740, which Clarke had received May 7, 1741. N.Y. Col. Docs., VI. 187. It was doubtless similar to the letter of the same date to the governor of Rhode Island, printed in Miss Kimball's Correspondence of the Colonial Governors of Rhode Island, I. 187. Newcastle was secretary of state. Vernon and Wentworth had already failed to capture Cartagena, but this was not yet known in New York.
[13] I.e., one hundred (112 lbs.) and two quarters (56 lbs.).
[14] Keg.
[15] The Revenge arrived at New York at the very height of the trials for the "Negro Conspiracy", for which, after extraordinary public excitement, thirteen negroes were burned at the stake, eighteen hanged, and seventy transported. On this day, June 12, the three white principals, John Hughson, his wife, and Margaret Kerry, were hanged, and three negroes, Albany, Curaçao Dick, and Francis, were burned. Daniel Horsmanden, Journal of the Proceedings in the Detection, etc. (New York, 1744).
[16] Indented servants.
[17] Staten.
[18] The Squirrel had gone down to Jamaica with reinforcements. N.Y. Col. Docs., VI. 170. The news brought was unduly favorable, as the event proved. Captain Warren, afterward Vice-Adm. Sir Peter Warren, commanded in 1745 all the naval forces that took part in the reduction of Louisbourg. He was a brother-in-law of Chief-justice James DeLancey, and uncle of Sir John Johnson.
[19] Presumably Simeon Potter of Bristol, a noted sea-captain; on him and the Prince Charles of Lorraine, see docs. [no. 176] and [no. 177].
[20] Port Morant is a port on the southeast side of Jamaica. "The Bay" means the Bay of Honduras.