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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
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