[60] Captors.
[61] Not 12, but 13 Geo. II., ch. 4, sect. 18. The recaptors were entitled to one-eighth for salvage if the vessel had been in enemy possession 24 hours, a fifth if 24-48 hours, a third if 48-96, a half if 96.
[62] John Everigin is recorded as a Quaker, in the roll of Capt. Benjamin Palmer's company of the militia regiment of Pasquotank County, North Carolina, in 1755. N.C. State Records, XXII. 350.
[63] Here follows a long account, the monotonous details of which may properly be omitted. It records the sale, to nearly sixty different purchasers, of the goods indicated in the abstract which ensues. In this abstract, the amounts are given in pieces of eight and reals; these were at that time the currency of the Bahamas.
[64] Bought by Captain Frankland.
[65] (Charles) Henry Frankland, afterward Sir Harry Frankland, and celebrated under that name because of the romantic story of Agnes Surriage, recounted in Dr. Holmes's poem, Agnes. An elder brother of Capt. Thomas Frankland, he had come to Boston in the spring of this year as collector of the port, and soon became one of the most picturesque magnates of the place. Nason, Sir Charles Henry Frankland, pp. 9-29. His associate was Robert Lightfoot, a prominent merchant. Pubs. Col. Soc. Mass., VII. 91.
[66] Deferred.
[67] Negro and mulatto.
[68] Brother of John Thompson the councillor, mentioned above. Bruce, p. 418.
[69] A monkey-block, perhaps.