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The trials of five persons for piracy, felony and robbery : Pamphlet 25 Aug - 5 Oct 1726.
Life at Sea : Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-1900 Available online
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- Book
- Series:
- Life at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-2797
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Navies.
- Sailors.
- Piracy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2022.
- Summary:
- Who were found guilty and condemned, at a Court of Admiralty for the trial of piracies, felonies and robberies, committed on the high seas, held at the court-house in Boston, within His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, on Tuesday the fourth day of October, anno domini, 1726. Pursuant to His Majesty's royal commission, founded on an act of Parliament made in the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of King William the Third, entituled, An act for the more effectual suppression of piracy; and made perpetual by an act of the sixth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord King George.On trial were "John Baptist Jedre, alias Laverdure, John Baptist Junior, James Mews, Philip Mews and John Missel."
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