The Trials of eight persons indited for piracy &c. Of whom two were acquitted, and the rest found guilty. At a justiciary Court of Admiralty assembled and held in Boston within His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, on the 18th of October 1717. And by several adjournments continued to the 30th. Pursuant to His Majesty's commission and instruction, founded on the act of Parliament made in the 11th. & 12th of King William IIId. Intituled, An act for the more effectual suppression of piracy. : With an appendix, containing the substance of their confessions given before His Excellency the governour, when they were first brought to Boston, and committed to goal.
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- The Trials of eight persons indited for piracy &c. Of whom two were acquitted, and the rest found guilty. At a justiciary Court of Admiralty assembled and held in Boston within His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, on the 18th of October 1717. And by several adjournments continued to the 30th. Pursuant to His Majesty's commission and instruction, founded on the act of Parliament made in the 11th. & 12th of King William IIId. Intituled, An act for the more effectual suppression of piracy. : With an appendix, containing the substance of their confessions given before His Excellency the governour, when they were first brought to Boston, and committed to goal.
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- Boston: :: Printed by B. Green, for John Edwards, and sold at his shop in King's Street.,
- 1718.
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- Subject terms
- Van Vorst, Simon, b. 1692 or 3.
- Trials (Piracy) -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
- Pirates -- Massachusetts.
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"The Trials of eight persons indited for piracy &c. Of whom two were acquitted, and the rest found guilty. At a justiciary Court of Admiralty assembled and held in Boston within His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, on the 18th of October 1717. And by several adjournments continued to the 30th. Pursuant to His Majesty's commission and instruction, founded on the act of Parliament made in the 11th. & 12th of King William IIId. Intituled, An act for the more effectual suppression of piracy. : With an appendix, containing the substance of their confessions given before His Excellency the governour, when they were first brought to Boston, and committed to goal." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N01688.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 12, 2024.