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hanged. Asked him for something to eat, telling him my own pro- 

 visions were all gone; he said I ought not to have anything to eat. 

 The next day I asked him again for something to eat, having had 

 nothing ; said he had not yet seen the Admiral, and I could have noth- 

 ing till he had seen him. I then told him I had robbed no one, was no 

 pirate, but thought he was; for if I was to be put to death he should 

 do it like a man, and not starve me to death; told him I wished to go 

 ashore and be put in prison. On the fourth day after I made appli- 

 cation for food, and had none for all this time; was taken on deck, 

 and told I was to go to St. John's to be hung, and two-thirds of a 

 sailor's allowance given me, and continued this way sixteen days, 

 and then came out and came on to the Banks of Grand Menan, and 

 the next morning made a harbor in New Brunswick; then went to 

 St. John's, and captain went on shore and came back, and sent the 

 pilot down to me, who told me to go to the captain and tell him that 

 you will give him a bond for sixty dollars to bring the vessel to St. 

 John's, and he will give you an order for her, and you take good care not 

 to fetch her here. I went up, and captain said, I suppose you want to 

 go home, don't you? I answered yes. I suppose if you went home 

 you would give me a pretty name, would you? Told him I would 

 give him no worse name than he deserved. Then asked if ever I was 

 in jail there. Told him no. He said I should be before night. Told 

 him I should prefer that to being on board. He then told me if I had 

 any friends in St. John's that would give him a bond for forty dollars, 

 I might go to Halifax and get my vessel, and bring her to St. John's. 

 I went ashore in his boat, procured a bond, and brought it to him; he 

 then told me I must not give him a bad name, but be thankful that he 

 had let me go and given me my vessel ; he took the bond for forty 

 dollars to deliver the vessel there in thirty days, and gave me an order 

 for my vessel ; said, you will take care, I suppose, not to come with 

 her. Told him thought I should. I then quit his vessel, and came 

 directly home. The vessel is still at Halifax, I suppose; I have not 

 been arter her. The above is a true history of the whole proceedings 

 of the Pilgrim this season. I have been in her all the time. She has 

 never been in any British harbor except where mentioned, nor fished 

 in any other place than is above stated. The loss of property is one 

 thousand dollars. 



Jacob Winslow. 



Sworn to before — 



Ether Sheplet. 

 November 5, 1824. 



[Inclosure No. 1 1.] 



William Howard, aged fourteen, on oath, declares: Thai lie, with 

 two other !>"'. . aged eventeen and thirteen. lasl Aumisl took a small 

 boa! belonging to Mr. Thomas Brown, tin- boal having aboul 1'ifieen 



fed keel, and went down the bay a fishing; ami pai «■■ I I > \ the little 



i land called theThum ( 'a \>. about half a mile, and fished there about 

 ;m hour ami a half; then went toward Ca co Bay island, and fished 

 perhaps three-quarter of an hour, then started to come home; got up 

 to Friar's Bay, in Campo Bello, and tin' Dotterel hailed us; we went 



up and on boa I'd the Dotti " I and I hey took our bout and moored her 



alongside, kepi as until next morning, and then set us on shore on 



