call’d the John and Martha, Captain Wilſon, which they attacked under the pyratical Black-Flag, and made themſelves Maſters of her. They put ſome of the Men aſhore, and others they detain’d, as they had done ſeveral Times, to encreaſe their Company; but Captain Martel, charged Captain Wilſon, to adviſe his Owners, that their Ship would anſwer his Purpoſe exactly, by taking one Deck down, and as for the Cargo, which conſiſted chiefly of Logwood and Sugar, he would take Care it ſhould be carry’d to a good Market.
Having fitted up the aforeſaid Ship, as they deſign’d, they mounted her with 22 Guns, 100 Men, and left 25 Hands in the Sloop, and ſo proceeded to Cruize off the Leeward Iſlands, where they met with but too much Succeſs. After the taking of a Sloop and a Brigantine, they gave Chaſe to a ſtout Ship, which they came up with, and, at Sight of the Pyrate’s Flag, ſhe ſtruck to the Robbers, being a Ship of 20 Guns, call’d the Dolphin, bound for Newfoundland. Captain Martel made the Men Priſoners, and carry’d the Ship with him.
The middle of December the Pyrates took another Galley in her Voyage home from Jamaica, call’d the Kent, Captain Lawton, and ſhifted her Proviſions aboard their own Ship, and let her go, which obliged her to Sail back to Jamaica for a Supply for her Voyage. After this they met with a ſmall Ship and a Sloop, belonging to Barbadoes, out of both they took Proviſions, and then parted with them, having firſt taken out ſome of their Hands, who were willing to be forced to go along with them. The Greyhound Galley of London, Captain Evans, from Guiney to Jamaica, was the next that had the Miſfortune to fall in their Way, which they did not detain long, for as ſoon as they could get out all her Gold Duſt, Elephant’s Teeth, and 40 Slaves, they ſent her onwards upon her Voyage.
