Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Part 10

23 low crowne black hatts 16 p'ces of taffeta ribbon severall colours 20 p'ces of black dito

_a box._

12 peeces blue linnon

a barrell of powder

_a small box broak open._

7 yards ticking 28 yards blue linnon 2 pa. weo. parragon bodices and Stomegers[11]

17 yards 1/2 of Stuffe 1 lb. black thread

[Footnote 11: Stomachers.]

1 small barrell of nayles

_a great chest._

7 peeces kersie 2 p'ces red playnes[12]

1 p'ce white cotton 12 grose coat b.u.t.ton 2 doz. pins 4 peeces galloune[13]

3 papers white filleting 12 peeces white tape a paper sewing and stiching silks about a ld.

6 paire woe. parragon bodices and stomegers 6 pa. childrens bodices

[Footnote 12: Flannel.]

[Footnote 13: Narrow braid of gold, silver, or silk thread.]

2 bra.s.s panns 69 Duch blue potts 2 small sloope sayles 3 small quoiles[14] cordidge 4 quarter casks of brandy 2 puncheons of mault 3 small casks of wine, 1 pt out sd to be Masters.

40 white Jarrs of oyle 13 doz. stone bottles 11 barrells of Bread 1 old missen 1 old fore saile 1 new fore topsaile 1 maine topsaile 1 maine saile 1 fore saile 1 maine topsaile 1 Ensigne[15]

1 Jack 1 pennant 1 long boats new maine saile and fore saile 1 sprittsell topsaile 1 new spritsaile 1 maine saile 1 missen top saile 1 missen 1 old fore topsaile 1 fore topsaile 1 old fore saile fore bouelings and braces and clue garnets[16]

fore Jeere buntlins and fore topsaile clulings fore top mast stays topsaile bouleings and lifts topsaile sheets topmast backstayes topsaile tie and halliards tacks topmast shrouds sheets sheet blocks Topsaile sheets blocks Maine boleings--missen Brailes Maine topsaile lifts Maine topsaile braces brases topsaile tie and Halliardes clue garnetes leich linees topmast backstaiees topmast sheets topmast shroudes buntlins topsaile bowlelings tackes topmast clulings and lifts and maine Jeere topmast staye, topmast buntlins sheets, sheete blocks

[Footnote 14: Coils.]

[Footnote 15: The ensign was the s.h.i.+p's chief flag. The jack was a small flag, in this case no doubt the union jack, combining the crosses on the flags of England and of Scotland, and was at this time commonly flown at the spritsail-topmast head.]

[Footnote 16: Of the various ropes here mentioned, bowlines and brails ran to the perpendicular sides of square sails, buntlines across their fronts; clew-garnets and clewlines were tackles for clewing up the lower and the upper square sails respectively, jeers for hoisting the lower yards; lifts ran from the masthead to the yard-arms, leech lines to the sides of the topsails.]

_What in 3 Chests (of the Seamens)_

_No. 1._

4 horse whips 1 weo. coat 3 doz. thread laces 2 pa. childrens hose 1 grose brest b.u.t.tons 1 p'ce diaper tape 3 pocket paper bookes 2 whisks 1 band 1 silke neck cloath 1 demity wastcoat 1 old s.h.i.+rt 2 yards striped linnon 6 yards Stuffe 1 p'ce kersie 1 coat 1 pa. briches 3 forestaffs[17] and vaines

[Footnote 17: Simple instruments for taking alt.i.tudes (and so determining lat.i.tudes).]

_No. 2._

1 lookeing gla.s.s 1 doz. pa. white worsted hose for men 1 bra.s.s old trumpett 5 s.h.i.+rts } 3 pa. drawers } foule 1 pa. fine gloves 2 stuffe coates 1 pa. briches, wast coat, and Jacket 1 wast coat and Jacket more 1 pa. new and 3 pa. old shooes 1 pa. yarne stockings 3 neckcloaths 2 pa. hose 1 pa. linnon sleeves 2 napkins, and severall other small things.

_No. 3._

1 peece fine broad cloath 6 yards 1/2 branch and Streaked stuffe 6 coates for men 1 stuffe pa. briches and dublet 3 pa. cloath briches 1 old dublet 1 girles petticoat 2 pa. Irish stockings 3 pa. childrens hose 1 woe. boddy of a gowne 1 pewter candlestick and socket 5 boyes hatts 17 yards blue linnon one perriwig 2 white tiffeny[18] hoods 2 pa. gloves 12 yards stuffe in 2 p'ces 3 bands[19] 1 laced 5 yards searge 2 pa. sleeves 2 small p'ces diaper filleting 4 yards 1/4 searge 1 gr. and 11 doz. b.u.t.tons 4 yards striped stuffe 3 doz. thread laces 6 yards shalloune[20]

a parcell of thread about 1/2 ld.

1 childes silke cap and a little parcell of silke and severall other small things.

[Footnote 18: Tiffany, thin transparent silk.]

[Footnote 19: Collars.]

[Footnote 20: Woollen stuff used for linings.]

1 kettle } 1 pott } left on board 1 stuepann } 26 Iron potts 25 Iron long bolts 6 chaine plates with dead eyes[21]

10 Iron bound dead eyes 7 wood axes 6 pump speires 12 small boltes 17 Iron clamps 1 bagg of 2d. nayles 2 baggs of 4d. nayles.

2 pruneing hookes for gardens 8 musquets (1 noe lock) 5 Iron hinges for ports 80 great speeks[22]

2 pintles 2 good Irons 1 top chaine 3 great rings 1 basket of sheathing nayles } halfe full each.

1 basket of 40d. nayles } 1 fiz gigg[23]

4 hookes 1 shovel 12 small rings 1 p.o.o.pe lanthhorne 1 Iron mill with 2 winches 1 cross cutt saw 2 chaine bolts more 2 pumpe Irons 2 table hookes 1 s.h.i.+rk hooke[24]

2 dogg Irons 2 doz. of 8 Inch blocks 1 doz. of 6 Inch blocks 1 doz. of 4 Inch blocks 11 blocks of 6 and 4 Inch 1 doz. of 5 Inch blocks 7 of 14 Inch blocks 1 topsaile sheete block 3 double table blocks 17 dead eyes 9 pump uper boxes 10 dito lower 5 blacking barrels 8 small gla.s.ses 1 wach gla.s.s 4 c.u.mpa.s.ses 12 sk. twine about halfe a barrel of powder 8 yards of canvas 2 pa. Stilliards without peises 3 small baggs of 2d. nayles (in a bagg) 1 dipsey lead[25] 18 lb.

2 pistalls 1 carbine 1 p'ce Leather 1 small fouleing peece 3 straw hatts 3 cables and 2 hallsers 4 anckors (sheet, best bower, small bower and kedge) 5 Iron gunns The s.h.i.+p _Providence_ and standing rigging with long boat and Skiffe.

[Footnote 21: Wooden blocks for extending the stays.]

[Footnote 22: A speek was a large nail; a pintle, then as now, a rudder-pin.]

[Footnote 23: A kind of harpoon.]

[Footnote 24: Hook for sturgeons; dog-irons were probably fire-dogs.]

[Footnote 25: Deep-sea lead (for sounding).]

In Obedience to a Warrant Comeing from the County Court held in Boston the 30th day of Aprill 1673, Unto us whose names are hereunder written, for to take an Inventory of the Estate and goods in the s.h.i.+pp _Providence_ of Falmouth, lately arived in Piscataqua River, etc., and to Render an acco't thereof unto the present Deputy Governor by the 7th of May, wee haveing accordingly done the same (as time would afford) Doe Signifie Unto the Honourable Deputy Governor, that the before mentioned particulars are the whole, that to our certaine knowleidg is come (in the said s.h.i.+pp) and that, according to the wrighting at the beginning hereof, they are Secured in the said Fryers hands and the s.h.i.+pp well mored in the harbour at the Great Island in Piscataqua River.

NATHANIELL FRYER.

May the 5th, 1673. HENRY DERING.

_34. Examination of John Johnson. May 5, 1673._[1]

[Footnote 1: Suffolk Court Files, no. 1257, paper 18.]