Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period - Illustrative Documents

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents Author: Various Editor: John Franklin Jameson Release Date: March 20, 2008 [EBook #24882] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PRIVATEERING AND PIRACY *** Produced by Suzanne Shell, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. This e-book was created from a 1970 reprint published by Augustus M. Kelly, Publishers, New York. Transcriber's Notes: This book contains documents written in 17th-and 18thCentury English, Dutch, French, and other languages. Inconsistencies of spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and hyphenation have been preserved as they appear in the original. (See the last paragraph of the Preface for the editor's note on this.) A few obvious printer errors in the editor's footnotes have been corrected. The original contains a number of blank spaces to represent missing matter. These are represented here as long dashes. The arrangement of "Captain Kid's Farewel to the Seas" is from Helen Kendrick Johnson, Our Familiar Songs and Those Who Made Them, pp.