an important part in the privateering
expeditions from Philadelphia in this war. In the _Memoirs_ of Peter
Henry Bruce, chiefly occupied with his service in the Russian army
under Peter the Great, but ending with a narrative of military
engineering services in the Bahamas and South Carolina, that author
gives an account (pp. 403-408, 421) of the capture of two rich Spanish
prizes in September, 1742, "by John Sibbald of the _George_ schooner,
and William Dowall, of the _Joseph and Mary_ sloop, both privateers
from Philadelphia", who brought them into New Providence; and he
vehemently accuses Governor Tinker of defrauding them and their
Philadelphia owners by machinations lasting all through that winter.
"All our Privateers", he adds, "intended to have made this place their
general rendezvous; but the treatment Sibbald and Dowall met with,
prevented any from coming near us". Later, May, 1744, the journal of
William Black shows Dowell as again commander of the _George_
schooner, 14 carriage and 18 swivel guns, then fitting out in the
Delaware; and in 1746 he commanded the _Pandour_ privateer. _Pa. Mag.
Hist._, I. 247, XXXII. 465.]

Then the Proofs were exhibited as follows, viz.

1. A True Translation from Spainish to Inglish of Mr. John Malidoni's
Bill of Sale of the Snow _Princess of Orange_--

Be it Knowen that I John Melidoni, of the Dutch Nation, residing in
this Village and Port of Sta. Cruz de Teneriffe, Grants and
a[c]knowledges by this prest. Bill of Sale that I do now and forever
really and effectually from hence forward sell and bequeath unto Mr.
Peter Doscher, junr. of said Dutch Nation, Mercht. in this expressed
port, To and for him and whomsoever he may represent, a Dutch[8] Snow
named the _Princess of Orange_, burdening (a little more or less) one
hundred Tuns, with her Masts, yards, Cables, Rigging, anchors and
other adherences or Necessarys that shall be found on board of her
and contained in the Inventory that I have delivered to the Buyer,
which are my property and free from Mortgages and other Ingagements,
which I came by and bought after the Conclusion and end of a Process
which was carried on in the Court of Admiralty before Mr. Peter Joseph
Ferrer, one of the Notary Publicks of this Island, Sub-delegated by
the intendent General of Marine in Cadiz, first officer of said
Admiralty Court,[9] as appear by a Certifacation thereof, to which for
the firmness of this Instrumt. (this day dispatched at my