[50] This is apparently the same Spanish privateer from St. Augustine of whose doings in just these days an account is given in the Journal of William Stephens, secretary of Georgia (Colonial Records of Georgia, Suppl. to vol. IV., pp. 225-228), and which Oglethorpe chased into St. Augustine a few days later (Wright, Oglethorpe, pp. 283-284).
[51] The northernmost of the Bahamas.
[52] Barracudas, fish six or eight or ten feet long.
[53] A small island of the Bahamas, which forms the north side of the harbor of New Providence or Nassau.
[54] John Tinker, governor 1740-1758. He came out in the Rose, Capt. Thomas Frankland, along with Peter Henry Bruce, the military engineer, and arrived at New Providence Apr. 21, 1741. According to Bruce, he had previously been factor to the South Sea Company at Panama, and governor of Cape Coast in Guinea for the Royal African Company. Major Stewart, mentioned just above, was William Stewart, a member of the colonial council and major of the militia. Memoirs of Peter Henry Bruce, pp. 375, 385, 386, 395. Journal of the Assembly of the Bahamas, 1741, passim.
[55] "William Moone, who came from London in the storeship with the recruits." Bruce, pp. 386, 410-412, 417-420.
[56] Hounds were projections at the masthead, supporting the rigging. Bitts were posts on the deck, for purposes of belaying.
[57] Gunwale.
[58] Capt. Thomas Frankland (afterward Adm. Sir Thomas Frankland) commanded the Rose, 20, on the Bahamas station from 1741 to 1745. He was a descendant of Oliver Cromwell, and a younger brother of Sir Harry Frankland, on whom see [note 65]. He married Sarah Rhett, of South Carolina, a granddaughter of Chief-justice Nicholas Trott (see [doc. no. 106], [note 3]). Lieutenant Stewart was the Major Stewart of [note 54], second lieutenant in the independent royal company and major of the militia. Bruce, pp. 386, 394, 400-402, 431-432.
[59] John Thompson of Harbour Island was a member of the council. James Scott was speaker of the assembly, judge of the admiralty court and at times chief justice. Journal of the Assembly of the Bahamas, 1741, pp. 1, 2, 8, 18, 24; Bruce, pp. 395, 417.