This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...resources and their unprotected state, the colonists were active, and in June, 1717, the Vice-Admiralty Court was again convened, and four pirates, who had been recently taken, were placed on trial for their lives. Stephen James De Cossey, Francis De Mont, Francis Rossoe, and Emanuel Ernandos were convicted of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...resources and their unprotected state, the colonists were active, and in June, 1717, the Vice-Admiralty Court was again convened, and four pirates, who had been recently taken, were placed on trial for their lives. Stephen James De Cossey, Francis De Mont, Francis Rossoe, and Emanuel Ernandos were convicted of piratically taking the vessels, the Turtle Dove, the Penelope, and the Virgin Queen, in July of the previous year, and having been sentenced to death by Judge Trott, were promptly executed at the hands of the law.' The trials last mentioned were held during the first year of the administration of Governor Robert Johnson, and were the results of the first of a series of operations conducted by that able official, which resulted in the final extermination of piracy as a crime in the Carolinas. Johnson had been commissioned Governor in April, 1717, and no man could have entered upon office under more inauspicious circumstances. The Province was in a deplorable condition, and so serious had the situation become that the inhabitants had already directed a petition to the king, praying to be taken directly under the royal protection. Their repeated complaints to the Proprietors had been either ignored or reproved as the outgrowth of an unruly and factional spirit.' The Indian wars had caused the ruin of the planters, and commerce had been almost annihilated by the hordes of pirates who now boldly threw the black flag to the winds of every sea. They had actually colonized the island of New Providence, and for several years had been permitted free access to the Cape Fear and other rivers and inlets of the North Carolina coast, from whence they issued 'Spotowood Letters, Vol. II., p. 246. S. C. Adm. Court Records, Book A and B. Rivers, 277. on lawless cruises, ...
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Very Good+ Volume 19 only (containing nos. 1-12 all bound together)! Hardcover with gilt stamped green cloth boards, 1901, octavo, staggared pagination, not illustrated. Book VG+ with mild rubbing to boards and hint of wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.