the Captain the Pilot and one Seaman being Irish and one native
Frenchman who was most of his life in Teneriff, That the Paper now
Shewn to him marked A.[35] contains the names of the Said Seamen and
the Deponent verily belives is of the handwriting of the for said
Andrew Haymas.
his
FRANCISCO [X] RODRIGUES
mark
[Footnote 32: No. 6 above.]
[Footnote 33: No. 5 above.]
[Footnote 34: No. 7 above.]
[Footnote 35: No. 8 above.]
And it appearing from the whole Tenor of the Evidence, that the Said
Snow and her Cargo, were at the time of the Capture, the Property of
Persons residing in the King of Spain's Dominions, viz. at Teneriff
and Cadiz
It is considered by the Court That the said Snow _Princess of Orange_,
Wines, and all other her Cargo, are, and hereby stand Condemned as
lawfull Prize.
PAT. BAIRD, Regr.[36]
[Footnote 36: Dr. Patrick Baird was clerk of the privy council
1723-1726, 1740-1742, clerk of the admiralty 1724-1735, register of
the admiralty court 1735-1744, and deputy judge of that court
1749-1752.]
THE _YOUNG EAGLE_.
_166. Petition of John Jones. December 30, 1741._[1]
[Footnote 1: Mass. Archives, vol. 64, pp. 124-125. For the _Young
Eagle_, Captain Dumaresq, and Captain Rous, see doc. no. 128, notes 2
and 9.]
Province of the Massachusetts }
Bay December }
30th, 1741 }
To His Excellency William
Shirley Esquire, Captain
General and Governour
in Chief in and Over the
Province aforesaid, And
to The Honble. His Majestys
Council of said
Province,
The Petition of John Jones of Boston in the
County of Suffolk Merchant
Humbly Sheweth
That about two Years ago One William Loud now residing in Boston went
Out in the _Young Eagle_ Privateer, Phillip Dumarasque Commander,
bound on a Privateering Voyage whereof your petitioner with others
were Owners. That the said Loud behaved himself on board in Such a
manner, that he was put on board One of His Majestys Ships of warr at
Giberalter for Mutiny, from whence he afterwards found means to run
away, and came to Boston, and applyed himself to your petitioner
telling him he could Inform him how the Officers of sd. Privateer had
greatly wronged your petitioner, That your petitioner being well
Informed of sd. Louds Actions, Mutinying and Ill behaviour on board
the said Privateer, thought proper not to Shew him any Countenance or
hear any thing he had to Say, whereupon t
|