there all the Night, while the Ship was aſhore; and obliged ſome of the Factory to aſſiſt in getting her clear. In the mean while, Ruſſel came off, but not being ſuffered to come on Board, he call’d to Lowther, and offered him and the Company, whatever Terms they would be pleaſed to accept of, upon Condition of ſurrendering up the Ship, which had no Effect upon any of them. In the Morning they got her afloat, and Maſſey and his Men came aboard, after having nailed up and diſmounted all the Cannon of the Fort: They put the Governor’s Son, and two or three others aſhore, who were not willing to go without the Governor, and ſail’d out of the River, having exchanged ſeveral Shot with the Martha, Otter, &c. that lay there, without doing Execution on either Side.
When the Ship came out to Sea, Lowther called up all the Company, and told them, it was the greateſt Folly imaginable, to think of returning to England, for what they had already done, could not be juſtifyed upon any Pretence whatſoever, but would be look’d upon, in the Eye of the Law, a capital Offence, and that none of them were in a Condition to withſtand the Attacks of ſuch powerful Adverſaries, as they would meet with at Home; for his Part he was determined not to run ſuch a Hazard, and therefore if his Propoſal was not agreed to, he deſired to be ſet a Shore in ſome Place of Safety: That they had a good Ship under them, a parcel of brave Follows in her, that it was not their Buſineſs to ſtarve, or be made Slaves; and therefore, if they were all of his Mind, they ſhould ſeek their Fortunes upon the Seas, as other Adventurers had done before them.
They one and all came into the Meaſures, knocked down the Cabins, made the Ship fluſh fore and aft, prepared black Colours, new named her, the Delivery, having about 50 Hands and 16 Guns, and the following ſhort Articles were drawn up, ſigned and ſworn to upon the Bible.
