ever, the Facts being plainly proved, and that they had all ſhared ten or eleven Pounds a Man, excepting the three laſt, and Thomas Nichols, they were all but they, found Guilty. The Judge made a very grave Speech to them, ſetting forth the Enormity of their Crimes, the Condition they were now in, and the Nature and Neceſſity of an unfeigned Repentance
; and then recommended them to the Miniſters of the Province, for more ample Directions, to fit them for Eternity, for
(concluded he) the Prieſt’s Lips ſhall keep Knowledge, and you ſhall ſeek the Law at their Mouths; for they are the Meſſengers of the Lord. Mat. II. 57. And the Ambaſſadors of Chriſt, and unto them is committed the Word [or Doctrine] of Reconciliation, 2 Cor. V. 19. 20
. And then pronounced Sentence of Death upon them.
On Saturday November the 8th, 1711. Robert Tucker, Edward Robinſon, Neal Paterſon, William Scot, Job Bayley, John-William Smith, John Thomas, William Morriſon, Samuel Booth, William Hewit, William Eddy, alias Neddy, Alexander Annand, George Roſs, George Dunkin, Matthew King, Daniel Perry, Henry Virgin, James Robbins, James Mullet, alias Millet, Thomas Price, John Lopez, and Zachariah Long, were executed at the White-Point near Charles-Town, purſuant to their Sentence.
As for the Captain, his Eſcape protracted his Fate, and ſpun out his Life a few Days longer, for he was try’d the 10th, and being found Guilty, received Sentence in like Manner as the former; before which Judge Trot, made a moſt excellent Speech to him, rather ſomewhat too long to be taken into our Hiſtory, yet I could not tell how to paſs by ſo good and uſeful a Piece of Inſtruction, not knowing whoſe Hands this Book may happen to fall into.
