Produced by Suzanne Shell, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. This e-book was created from a 1970 reprint published by Augustus M. Kelly, Publishers, New York. [Transcriber's Notes: This book contains documents written in 17th- and 18th-Century English, Dutch, French, and other languages. Inconsistencies of spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and hyphenation have been preserved as they appear in the original. (See the last paragraph of the Preface for the editor's note on this.) A few obvious printer errors in the editor's footnotes have been corrected. This book contains characters with macrons, which are represented here in brackets with an equal sign, e.g., [=a]. The original contains various symbols to represent signature marks. These have been described in brackets, e.g., JOHN [X] SMITH. The original contains a number of blank spaces to represent missing matter. These are represented here as a series of four hyphens. In the original, there are a few numbers enclosed in square brackets. They are here enclosed in curly brackets, in order to avoid confusion with the square-bracketed footnote numbers used in this e-text.] PRIVATEERING AND PIRACY IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD: ILLUSTRATIVE DOCUMENTS EDITED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA BY JOHN FRANKLIN JAMESON DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH IN THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1923 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