Extract of Commissions for Trying Pirates in America. 14th January 1762.[2]
North Carolina
Maryland, and
Virginia |  | Commission for trying such
Pirates as shall be taken and
carryed into His Majesty's
Provinces of North Carolina,
Maryland and Virginia. | | 169 |
| |
Bahama
Islands |  | Commission for Trying such
Pirates as shall be taken and
carried into His Majesty's Bahama
Islands. Dated the same Day. | | 176 |
| |
Bermuda
Islands | | Commission for Trying such
Pirates as shall be taken and carried
into His Majesty's Bermuda
Islands. Of the same Date. | | 180 |
| |
Island of
Newfoundland | | Commission for Trying such
Pirates as shall be taken and carried
into His Majesty's Island
of Newfoundland. Of the same
Date. | | 184 |
| |
Province of
Nova Scotia | | Commission of the same Date,
for Trying such Pirates as shall
be taken and carried into His
Majesty's Province of Nova
Scotia. | | 187 |
| |
Island of
Barbadoes | | Commission of the same Date,
for Trying such Pirates as shall
be taken and carried into His
Majesty's Island of Barbadoes. | | 191 |
| |
New York
New Jersey
Pensylvania
and Connecticut |  | Commission of the same Date,
for Trying such Pirates as shall
be taken and carried into His
Majesty's Provinces of New
York, New Jersey, Pensylvania,
and Colony of Connecticut. | | 195 |
| |
Leeward
Islands | | Commission of the same Date,
for Trying such Pirates, as shall
be taken and carried into His
Majesty's Leeward Islands. | | 200 |
| |
Island of
Jamaica | | Commission of the same Date,
for Trying such Pirates, as shall
be taken and carried into His
Majesty's Island of Jamaica. | | 205 |
| |
Provinces of
South Carolina
and Georgia | | Commission of the same Date,
for Trying such Pirates, as shall
be taken, and carried into His
Majesty's Provinces of South
Carolina and Georgia. | | 209 |
| |
Massachusetts
Bay, New
Hampshire
and Rhode
Island |  | Commission of the same Date,
for Trying such Pirates, as shall
be taken, and carried into His
Majesty's Provinces of the
Massachusetts Bay and New
Hampshire, and Colony of Rhode
Island. | | 214 |
Sir,
| The | Danae | sailed | 6th | May | 1762 | for | Jamaica and Leeward Islands. |
| | Gosport | | 7 | April | 1762 | for | Virginia and Maryland. |
| | Launceston | | 7 | April | 1762 | | New England. |
but cannot find out how the Pacquets to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland were conveyed.
[1] Public Record Office, Admiralty, 1:3679. The note of March 10, 1762, and the list of commissions, were enclosures in the note of Aug. 26, 1772. The writer, Samuel Seddon, was solicitor to the Admiralty. John Clevland, to whom the earlier letter was addressed, was secretary to that body from 1751 to 1763; Philip Stephens, from 1763 to 1795. For these commissions to try pirates, see [doc. no. 51], [note 2], and [doc. no. 106], [note 1]. The death of George II. and the accession of George III., 1760, made necessary the issue of new commissions. The persons included in the commission were, in each case, the governor, the vice-admiral, flag-officers, and commander-in-chief of any squadron within the admiralty jurisdiction of the colony, its lieutenant-governor and council, the chief civil judge, the judge of the vice-admiralty, the captains and commanders of royal ships within the jurisdiction, the secretary of the colony, the surveyor general of customs, and the collector of plantation duties. Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial, IV. 485-487; John Adams, Works, IX. 628.
[2] The figures refer to pages in the appropriate volume of the registers of the High Court of Admiralty.
202. Articles of Agreement; the Mars. June 23, 1762.[1]