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PIRATES :D
Another Nassau Gazette entry for you, this time from the week of Jan 15-22, 1795! And about PIRATES!
ALSO it is finally fucking raining, yesss*! We'be had less than an inch since February, and we usually get *downpours* in the spring!
*yes somewhat qualified by the certainty that I have windows left open at home -_-
Anyway, you don't care about that, you are here for the PIRATES!
Kingston, (Jamaica) November 13 [1784] As villains of Twentyman’s description may be ranked among the most pernicious and dangerous enemies of mankind, Mr. Aston’s vigilance, activity, and perseverance, in his successful pursuit of this miscreant, which was ended after a fatiguing journey of 200 miles, deserves something more, at the hands of the community in general, than bare praise.
From Twentyman’s confession it incontestably appears, that two of the bloody pirates are still undetected. –William Price, who was put ashore with a sum of money to seal up his lips, at the island of St. martin, where the Schooner touched, and Mois Keating landed at Aux Cayes, a port on the eastern side of the island of Hispaniola, from whence he never returned to the schooner. The apprehension of these two remaining villains is most devoutly to be wished, and, notwithstanding they have hitherto eluded justice, we hope it is near at hand; as the unerring and vindictive arrest of Providence, ever sure, though sometimes slow, will, no doubt, overtake them in due time.
It was one Hughes, and not Keaton, whom the pirates murdered when he was asleep in his cabin, who entered with them in America, but by some unaccountable mistake his name is not mentioned in the Philadelphia advertisement. This is inserted by way of [st]imulating the gentlemen at Port Royal, who board all vessels that come in, in he should really come this way, agreeable to his first intention.
Thursday last a small vessel sailed from Port Royal express for Philadelphia, with a full account of the pirate Johnson’s apprehension and confession, accompanied by a letter, as it is said, from the C[ust]os of this parish, to Mr. Dickinson, President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania.
We learn from indisputable authority, that preparations are making for the trial of the two murderers and pirates now in the jail of this town, which event is to take place before the liting of the next grand court, that it may not interfere with the business of that high and respectable tribunal. The confession of Johnson and Twentyman, which have been legally taken, will be fully sufficient to convict the miscreants, without having recourse to the tardy expedient of sending for evidence to the continent of America.
ALSO it is finally fucking raining, yesss*! We'be had less than an inch since February, and we usually get *downpours* in the spring!
*yes somewhat qualified by the certainty that I have windows left open at home -_-
Anyway, you don't care about that, you are here for the PIRATES!
Kingston, (Jamaica) November 13 [1784] As villains of Twentyman’s description may be ranked among the most pernicious and dangerous enemies of mankind, Mr. Aston’s vigilance, activity, and perseverance, in his successful pursuit of this miscreant, which was ended after a fatiguing journey of 200 miles, deserves something more, at the hands of the community in general, than bare praise.
From Twentyman’s confession it incontestably appears, that two of the bloody pirates are still undetected. –William Price, who was put ashore with a sum of money to seal up his lips, at the island of St. martin, where the Schooner touched, and Mois Keating landed at Aux Cayes, a port on the eastern side of the island of Hispaniola, from whence he never returned to the schooner. The apprehension of these two remaining villains is most devoutly to be wished, and, notwithstanding they have hitherto eluded justice, we hope it is near at hand; as the unerring and vindictive arrest of Providence, ever sure, though sometimes slow, will, no doubt, overtake them in due time.
It was one Hughes, and not Keaton, whom the pirates murdered when he was asleep in his cabin, who entered with them in America, but by some unaccountable mistake his name is not mentioned in the Philadelphia advertisement. This is inserted by way of [st]imulating the gentlemen at Port Royal, who board all vessels that come in, in he should really come this way, agreeable to his first intention.
Thursday last a small vessel sailed from Port Royal express for Philadelphia, with a full account of the pirate Johnson’s apprehension and confession, accompanied by a letter, as it is said, from the C[ust]os of this parish, to Mr. Dickinson, President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania.
We learn from indisputable authority, that preparations are making for the trial of the two murderers and pirates now in the jail of this town, which event is to take place before the liting of the next grand court, that it may not interfere with the business of that high and respectable tribunal. The confession of Johnson and Twentyman, which have been legally taken, will be fully sufficient to convict the miscreants, without having recourse to the tardy expedient of sending for evidence to the continent of America.