table I had made use of in apprehending Kidd and his men, and sent
him with Col. Sanford's messenger to search all the Inns in town and at
the first Inn they found the mare on which Gillam had rode into town,
tied up in the yard. The people of the Inn reported that the man who
brought her hither had alighted off her about a quarter of an hour
before, and went away without saying anything.

"I gave orders to the master of the Inn that if anybody came to look
after the mare, he should be sure to seize him, but nobody came for
her. Next morning I summoned a Council, and we published a
Proclamation, wherein I promised a reward of 200 Pieces of Eight for
the seizing and securing of Gillam, whereupon there was the strictest
search made all that day and the next that was ever made in this part
of the world. But we would have missed had I not been informed of one
Capt. Knott as an old Pyrate and therefore likely to know where Gillam
was conceal'd. I sent for Knott and examined him, promising if he
would make an ingenious Confession I would not molest him.

"He seemed much disturbed but would not confess anything to purpose. I
then sent for his wife and examined her on oath apart from her husband,
and she confessed that one who went by the name of James Kelly had
lodged several nights in her house, but for some nights past he lodged,
as she believed, in Charlestown, cross the River. I knew that he
(Gillam) went by the name of Kelly. Then I examined Captain Knott
again, telling him his wife had been more free and ingenious than him,
which made him believe she had told all. And then he told me of
Francis Dole in Charlestown, and that he believed that Gillam would be
found there.

"I sent half a dozen men immediately, and Knott with 'em. They beset
the House and searched it, but found not the man. Two of the men went
through a field behind Dole's house and ... met a man in the dark whom
they seized at all adventure, and it happened as oddly as luckily to be
Gillam. He had been treating two young women some few miles off in the
Country, and was returning at night to his landlord Dole's house.

"I examined him but he denied everything, even that he came with Kidd
from Madagascar, or even saw him in his life; but Capt. Davis who came
thence with Kidd's men is positive he is the man and that he went by
his true name Gillam all the while he was on the voyage with 'em. And
Mr. Campbell, Postmaster of this town, whom I sent