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their Fears ;Of her ev^er rifing in Judgment againft 

 them. 



Captain T^^c/?, alias Black-beard^ palTed three or 

 four Months in the River^ fometimes lying at An- 

 chor in the Coves, at other Times failing from one 

 Inlet to another, trading with fuch Sloops as he 

 met, for the Plunder he had taken, and would of. 

 ten give them Prefents for Stores and Provifions 

 took from them that is, when he happened to be 

 in a giving Humour ^ at other Times he made bold 

 vvith them, and took what he liked, without fay- 

 ing, by your Leave ^ knowing well, tiiey dared not 

 fend him a Bill for the Payment. He often di- 

 verted himfelf with going afhore among the Plan- 

 ters, where he revelled Night and Day : By thefe 

 ne was well received, but whether out of Love 

 or Fear, I cannot fay fometimes he ufed them cour- 

 teoufly enough, and made them Prefents^ of Rum 

 and Sugar, in Recompence of what* he took from 

 them but, as for Liberties (which 'tis faid) he 

 and his Companions often took with the Wives 

 and Daughters of the Planters, I cannot take 

 upon me to fay, whether he paid them ad Valorem^ 

 or no. At other Times he carried it in a lordly 

 Manner towards them, and would lay fbme of them 

 under Contribution • nay, he often proceeded to 

 bully the Governor, not, that lean difcover the 

 leaft Caufe of Quarrel betwixt them, but it feemed 

 only to be done, to fliew he dared do it. 



The Sloops trading up and down this River, 

 being lb frequently pillaged by Blachbeard^ con- 

 futed with the Traders, and feme of the beft of the 

 planters, what Courfe to take they faw plainly 

 it would be in vain to make any Application to 

 the Governor of North-CaroUnay to whom it pro- 

 perly belonged to find fome Redrefs ^ fo that if 

 they could not be relieved from fome other Quar- 

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