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         Lib. H. D. to himself he said, he Received no Share, but what they were

                pleased to give him for mending their cloaths and such like; to

                the quantity of abt 300: pieces of Gold. That after the War

                rants were out for taking up the Privateers, Charles Goss (one

                of them) came to one Widw Huttons House to take his leave

                of her, where in a quarrell with a ffrenchman he was kill'd.

                That two days after (at the sd Goss's funerall) there happen'd

                a Riott, wch one Capt Snead a Magistrate of that place, going

                to Appease & Comanded the Peace, he was violently assaulted

                and in defending himself from the Rabble, he casually

                wounded a man. That there was a Rumour of a Carolina

                Sloop being there, which was intended to Carry of those

                privateers, but Notice thereof, being given to the Govr he made

                the master Enter into 2000 lb Bond to the Contrary. But the

                sd Master being known to be an old Privateer himself in Sus

                pected notwithstanding to have Carryed the sd Chinton &

                Lassell away with him. The sd Masters Name is Meddlecot

                and is said to have been Chyrurgeons Mate to a Privateer tht

                went to the Persian Sea about ffive years Agoe, whereof it is

                said tht James Miller one of the Privateers aforenamed was

                Master.

                                              Tho:     Robinson

                Mr ffrancis Jones merchant, being lately come from Philadel

                phia and having had the perusall of the foregoing Information

                does say tht he is sensible of a great part thereof by his own

                knowledge, having been an Eye and Ear Witness to Severall

                passages therein Contain'd.

                                                  ffr: Jones

                       At the Port of Annapolis

                          July the 30th 1697.

                  The within Information Signed to by Thomas Robinson

                 Esq & Mr ffr: Jones within Named was taken before his Exncy

                 the Govr and the honrble Sr Thomas Laurence Baront Secryr the

                 day & Year above written.

                                          Hen:    Denton Cl Concil.

            p. ioo                C: Ccecill ss

                                         July the 15th 1697.

                 Mr Vander- Mr Henry Denton.

                      H.   About 3/W agoe I happen'd to goe up to Phil

                 Denton abt adelphia, and in my stay there, which was 5 days;

                 Privateers &c: Charles Goss, one of the Pirats was stobbed by

                 Mr James Martin a ffrench Mercht the sd Martin as it was