A great Ship has been seen off this Coast any time this Week; it is supposed to be one Maise, a Pyrate who has brought a vast deale of wealth from the red Seas.[10] There is a Sloop also at Rhoad Island, which is said to be a Pyrate. I hear the men goe a shoar there in the day time and return to the Sloop at night and spend their gold very liberally. We can do nothing towards the taking those Ships, for want of a man of War. I am manning out a Ship to go in Quest of the _Quidah-Marchant_ left by Kid on the Coast of Hispaniola: by some papers which we seized with Kid, and by his own Confession, wee have found out where the Ship lyes;[11] and according to his account of the Cargo we compute her to be worth seventy thousand pounds. The Ship that carries this is just upon Sailing, and will not be persuaded to stay any longer; so that I cannot send your Lordships the Inventories of the Goods brought in by Kid, nor the Informations we have taken about him from his own men, till next opportunity. I am, with Respect, My Lords Your Lordships most humble and obedient Servant BELLOMONT. [Footnote 10: William Maze or Mace was one of the pirates specifically named, along with Tew and Wake, in Kidd's commissions.] [Footnote 11: For the benefit of treasure-hunters, one might wish one could be precise. But while the master of the _Antonio_ says at Sta. Catalina (_Commons Journal_, XIII. 27) and other sailors (_ibid._, 24) say in the Rio Romana, which would mean much the same, Henry Bolton (doc. no. 86) says in the Rio Higuey, which is 30 miles farther east, and Capt. Nicholas Evertse, a worthy New York skipper, says (_C.J._, XIII. 24) that on June 29 he saw the _Quedah Merchant_, on fire and burnt down almost to the water's edge, in a salt lagoon on "the Island St. Helena, nigh Hispaniola," meaning, apparently, Sta. Catalina.] _78. Petition of Sarah Kidd. July 16 (?), 1699._[1] [Footnote 1: Mass. Archives, vol. 62, no. 316. On May 16, 1691, Kidd received license to marry at New York Sarah Oort, widow of John Oort, merchant of New York. She was a daughter of Samuel Bradley. Kidd was her third husband. In 1703 she married a fourth. She died in New Jersey in 1744, leaving five children, one of whom was apparently a daughter of Kidd. Frederic de Peyster, in his _Bellomont_, p. 29, says that she "is said to have been a lovely and accomplished woman." Lovely she may have been, and evidently she was attractive, since she had four husbands, but she could not write her own name. To this document and to nos. 80 and 81 she affixes her mark, S.K., rudely printed; facsimile in _Memorial History of Boston_, II. 179.--Since this book was prepared, this petition has been printed in the _Proceedings_ of the American Antiquarian Society, XXXI. 50-51.]