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Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period
Illustrative Documents
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664654670
Table of Contents
PRIVATEERING AND PIRACY IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD
CASE OF JOHN QUELCH AND HIS FELLOW PIRATES.
PIRACY OF BARTHOLOMEW ROBERTS.
CASES OF JOHN ROSE ARCHER AND OTHERS.
DUMARESQ VS. THE AMSTERDAM POST .
THE LEWIS JOSEPH AND THE ST. ANNE .
THE PRINCE CHARLES OF LORRAINE .
LA VIRGEN DEL ROSARIO Y EL SANTO CRISTO DE BUEN VIAGE.
To the Honored Memory of
JOHN JAMESON
OF BOSTON
1828–1905
VOYAGER, TEACHER, LAWYER, SCHOLAR
WHOSE LOVE OF LEARNING AND WHOSE UNSELFISH
DEVOTION MADE IT NATURAL AND POSSIBLE
THAT I SHOULD LEAD THE STUDENT’S LIFE
PREFACE
The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America have formed the laudable habit of illustrating the colonial period of United States history, in which they are especially interested, by published volumes of original historical material, previously unprinted, and relating to that period. Thus in the course of years they have made a large addition to the number of documentary sources available to the student of that period. First they published, in 1906, in two handsome volumes, the Correspondence of William Pitt, when Secretary of State, with Colonial Governors and Military and Naval Commanders in America, edited by the late Miss Gertrude Selwyn Kimball, containing material of great importance to the history of the colonies as a whole, and of the management of the French and Indian War. Next, in 1911 and 1914, they published the two volumes of Professor James C. Ballagh's valuable edition of the Letters of Richard Henry Lee. Then, in 1912, they brought out, again in two volumes, the Correspondence of Governor William Shirley, edited by Dr. Charles H. Lincoln, and illustrating the history of several colonies, particularly those of New England, during the period of what in our colonial history is called King George's War. More recently, in 1916, the Society published an entertaining volume of hitherto unprinted Travels in the American Colonies, edited by Dr. Newton D. Mereness.
It was resolved that the next volume after these should be devoted to documents relating to maritime history. In proportion to its importance, that