About the Middle of June, theſe Pyrates met with one Captain Marſton, between Hiſpaniola and Jamaica, bound on a Voyage to New-York; from whom they took all the wearing Apparel they could find, as alſo his Liquors and Proviſion, and five of his Men, but did not touch his Cargo; two or three other Veſſels were alſo plundered by them, in this Cruiſe, out of whom they ſtocked themſelves with Proviſion and Men; among the reſt, I think, was the Irwin, Captain Roſs, from Cork in Ireland; but this I won’t be poſitive of, becauſe they denied it themſelves. This Ship had 600 Barrels of Beef aboard, beſides other Proviſions, and was taken off Martinico, wherein Colonel Doyly of Montſerrat, and his Family were Paſſengers. The Colonel was very much abuſed and wounded, for endeavouring to ſave a poor Woman, that was alſo a Paſſenger, from the Inſults of that brutiſh Crew; and the Pyrates prevailing, twenty one of them forced the poor Creature ſucceſſively, afterwards broke her Back and flung her into the Sea. I ſay, I will not be poſitive it was Anſtis’s Crew that acted this unheard of Violence and Cruelty, tho’ the Circumſtances of the Place, the Time, the Force of the Veſſel, and the Number of Men, do all concur, and I can place the Villany no where elſe; but that ſuch a Fact was done, there is too much Evidence for it to be doubted of.
When they thought fit to put an End to this Cruize, they went into one of the Iſlands to clean, which they effected without any Diſturbance, and came out again, and ſtretching away towards Burmudas, met with a ſtout Ship, called the Morning Star, bound from Guiney to Carolina; they made Prize of her, and kept her for their own Uſe. In a Day or two, a Ship from Barbadoes bound to New-York, fell into their Hands, and taking out her Gunsand
