[4] I.e., lower your topsail, in token of surrender.
[5] Machias.
[6] The Trial, of Kittery, belonging to Maj. Nicholas Shapleigh; Doc. Hist., VI. 46-47.
[7] Sent by the Massachusetts government to suppress these pirates.
[8] Of one of the Dutchmen concerned in this episode of piracy, Cornelius Andersen, Hutchinson relates, quoting a contemporary letter, that, being under sentence of death for piracy, but pardoned on condition of enlisting in King Philip's War, "He pursued Phillip so hard that he got his cap and now wears it. The general, finding him a brave man, sent him with a command of twelve men to scout, with orders to return in three hours on pain of death; he met 60 Indians hauling their canoes ashore: he killed 13 and took 8 alive, and pursued the rest as far as he could go for swamps, and on his return burnt all the canoes ... and a short time after was sent out on a like design and brought in 12 Indians alive and two scalps." History of Massachusetts Bay, I. 263.
BRANDENBURG PRIVATEERS.
43. Seignelay to Colbert. May 8 (N.S.), 1679.[1]
Copie of a Letter to M. Colbert from the Marquis de Segnelay about two Brandenbourg Privateers armed for the American Islands. 8 May 1679 N.S., received 9 May V.S.[2]