[111] 1670. The General Court being informed that there is a ship riding in the road at the Isle of Shoales suspected to be a pirat, and hath pirattically seized the sayd ship and goods from some of the French nation in amity with the English, and doeth not come under comand, this Court doeth declare and order that neither the sayd ship or goods or any of the company shall come into our jurisdiction, or be brought into any of our ports, upon penalty of being seized upon and secured to answer what shall be objected against them.--"Massachusetts Colonial Records," vol. iv., part ii., p. 449. [112] After execution the bodies of the pirates were taken to the little island in Boston harbor known as Nix's Mate, on which there is a monument. Fly was hung in chains, and the other two buried on the beach. The total disappearance of this island before the encroachments of the sea is the foundation of a legend. Bird Island, in the same harbor, on which pirates have been executed, has also disappeared. It formerly contained a considerable area. [113] A somewhat more authentic naval conflict occurred during the war of 1812 with Great Britain, when the American privateer, _Governor Plummer_, was captured on Jeffrey's Ledge by a British cruiser, the _Sir John Sherbroke_. The American had previously made many captures. Off Newfoundland she sustained a hard fight with a vessel of twelve guns, sent out to take her. She also beat off six barges sent on the same errand. [114] 1686. Ordered that no shipps do unliver any part of their lading at the Isles of Shoals before they have first entered with the Collector of H. M. Customs, and also with the officer receiving his majs imposts and revenues arising upon wine, sperm, &c., imported either in Boston, Salem, or Piscataqua; and that all shipps and vessells trading to the eastward of Cape Porpus shall enter at some of the aforesaid Ports, or at the town of Falmouth in the Prov. of Maine.--"Massachusetts Council Records," vol. i., p. 43. [115] Boston, 1850: original in possession of Dorchester Antiquarian Society. [116] Mount Wollaston, Quincy, Massachusetts; present residence of John Quincy Adams, Esq. [117] See "Massachusetts Historical Collections," vol. iii., p. 63. [118] British State Papers, Calendars. [119] Spanish ship _Sagunto_, Carrera, seventy-three days from Cadiz for New York, arrived at Newport on Monday, January 11th, out of provisions and water, and the crew frost-bitten. Cargo, wine, raisins, and salt. Saw no English cruisers, and spoke only one vessel, a Baltimore privateer.--_Columbian Centinel_, January 16th, 1813. [120] Appledore, a small sea-port of England, County of Devon, parish of Northampton, on the Torridge, at its mouth in Barnstable Bay, two and a quarter miles north of Bideford. It is resorted to in summer as a bathing-place, and has a harbor subordinate to the port of Barnstable.--"Gazetteer." [121] Levett says, "Upon these islands are no salvages at all."