2. One Bag Coyned Gold and in it silver.
3. One p'cl dust Gold.
4. One Bag three Silver Rings and Sundry precious
stones. One bag of unpolished Stones. One
ps. of Cristol and Bazer Stone, Two Cornelion
Rings, two small Agats. Two Amathests all in
the same Bag.
5. One Bag Silver Buttons and a Lamp.
6. One Bag broken Silver.
7. One Bag Gold Bars.
8. One Bag Gold Barrs.
9. One Bag Dust Gold.
10. One Bag of Silver Bars.
11. One Bag Silver Bars.
The whole of the Gold above mentioned is Eleven hundred, and Eleven
ounces, Troy Weight.
The silver is Two Thousand, three Hundred, Fifty-three ounces.
The Jewels or Precious Stones Weight are seventeen Ounces ... an Ounce,
and Six[13] ... Stone by Tale.
The Sugar is Contained in Fifty-Seven Baggs.
The Merchandize is Contained in Forty-one Bailes.
The Canvis is Seventeen pieces.
SAM. SEWALL.
NATH'L BYFIELD.
JER. DUMMER.
LAUR. HAMMOND, Lt. Coll.
ANDR. BELCHER.
_Endorsed:_
Inventory of the Gold, Silver, Jewels and Merchandize late in the
possession of Capt. Wm. Kidd and Seiz'd and secured by ordr. of the E.
of Bellomont, 28th of July 1699. This is an original paper.
BELLOMONT."
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[Illustration: A memorandum of Captain Kidd's treasure left on
Gardiner's Island. This is his own declaration, signed and sworn.]
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That famous sloop, the _San Antonio_, was also carefully inventoried
but her contents were for the most part sea gear and rough furnishings,
barring a picturesque entry of "ye boy Barleycorn," an apprentice
seaman who had sailed with Kidd. Robert Livingston has something to
say about Kidd's property in his statement under examination, which has
been preserved as follows:
"Robert Livingston, Esq. being notified to appear before his Excellency
and Council this day and sworn to give a true Narrative and Relation of
his knowledge or information of any Goods, Gold, Silver, Bullion, or
other Treasure lately imported by Capt. William Kidd, his Company and
Accomplices, or any of them, into this Province, or any other of his
Majesty's Provinces, Colonies, or Territories in America, and by them
or any of them imbezelled, concealed, conveyed away, or any ways
disposed of, saith:
"That hearing
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