Page:A general history of the pyrates, from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present time (1724).djvu/37

Rh Pyrates, robbing not the Spaniards only, but their own Countrymen, and any Nation they could lay their Hands on.

It happened about this Time, that the Spaniards, with three or four mall Men of War, fell upon our Logwood Cutters, in the Bay of Campeachy, and Bay or Honduras; and after they had made Prizes of the following Ships and Veels, they gave the Men belonging to them, three Sloops to carry them home, but thee Men being made deperate by their Misfortunes, and meeting with the Pyrates, they took on with them, and o encreas’d their Number.

The Stafford, Captain Knocks, from New-England, bound for London. Anne, Gernih, for ditto. Dove Grimtone, for New-England. A Sloop, Alden, for ditto. A Brigantine, Moon, for ditto. A Brigantine, Turfield, for ditto. A Brigantine, Tennis, for ditto. A Ship,  Porter, for ditto. Indian Emperor, Wentworth, for New-England. A Ship, Rich, Mater. Ditto, Bay. Ditto, Smith. Ditto, Stockum. Ditto, Satlely. A Sloop,  Richards, belonging to New-England. Two Sloops,  belonging to Jamaica. One Sloop  of Barbadoes. Two Ships  from Scotland. Two Ships  from Holland.

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