Page:A general history of the pyrates, from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present time (1724).djvu/355

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ſet to rights again; for ſome of the New-Comers, and thoſe who had been tir’d with the Trade, put an End to the Reign, by ſhooting Tho. Anſtis in his Hammock, and afterwards the Quarter-Maſter, and two or three others; the reſt ſubmitting, they put into Irons, and ſurrender’d them up, and the Veſſel, at Curacco, a Dutch Settlement, where they were try’d and hang’d; and thoſe concerned in delivering up the Veſſel, acquitted.

But to return to Captain Fenn, he was taken ſtragling with his Gunner and three more, a Day or two after their Miſfortune, by the Man of War’s Men, and carry’d to Antegoa, where they were all executed, and Fenn hang’d in Chains. Thoſe who remain’d, ſtaid ſome Time in the Iſland, keeping up and down in the Woods, with a Hand to look out; at length Providence ſo order’d it, that a ſmall Sloop came into the Harbour, which they all got aboard of, except two or three Negroes, and thoſe they left behind. They did not think fit to purſue any further Adventures, and therefore unanimouſly reſolved to ſteer for England, which they accordingly did, and in October laſt came into Briſtol Channel, ſunk the Sloop, and getting aſhore in the Boat, diſperſed themſelves to their Abodes.


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