Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period: Illustrative Documents
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Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period: Illustrative Documents
Pirates; Privateering; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources
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. buttons
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 poope lanthhorne
1 Iron mill with 2 winches
1 cross cutt saw
2 chaine bolts more
2 pumpe Irons
2 table hookes
1 shirk 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 glasses
1 wach glass
4 cumpasses
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 Ship _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).]
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