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, the Facts being plainly proved, and that they had all hared ten or eleven Pounds a Man, excepting the three lat, and Thomas Nichols, they were all but they, found Guilty. The Judge made a very grave Speech to them, etting forth ; and then recommended them to the Miniters of the Province, for more ample Directions, to fit them for Eternity, (concluded he). And then pronounced Sentence of Death upon them.

On Saturday November the 8th, 1711. Robert Tucker, Edward Robinon, Neal Pateron, William Scot, Job Bayley, John-William Smith, John Thomas, William Morrion, Samuel Booth, William Hewit, William Eddy, alias Neddy, Alexander Annand, George Ros, George Dunkin, Matthew King, Daniel Perry, Henry Virgin, James Robbins, James Mullet, alias Millet, Thomas Price, John Lopez, and Zachariah Long, were executed at the White-Point near Charles-Town, puruant to their Sentence.

As for the Captain, his Ecape protracted his Fate, and pun out his Life a few Days longer, for he was try’d the 10th, and being found Guilty, received Sentence in like Manner as the former; before which Judge Trot, made a mot excellent Speech to him, rather omewhat too long to be taken into our Hitory, yet I could not tell how to pas by o good and ueful a Piece of Intruction, not knowing whoe Hands this Book may happen to fall into.