ved the _George_ Privateer, belonging to this Place, from
Jamaica. Capt. Drummond, who commanded her, died on the Passage". See
also _Memorial Hist. Phila._, I. 246, 247.]

At the Court of Vice Admiralty held at Philada. for the Province of
Pensilvania the 11th day of June in the fifteenth year of the Reign of
our Sovereign Lord King George the Second, Annoque Dom'i 1741.[2]

[Footnote 2: The reign of George II. began on June 11, 1727;
accordingly June 11, 1741, was the first day of his fifteenth year.]

Before the Hon'ble Andrew Hamilton, Esqr., Judge of the said Court.

A Libel exhibited by John Sibbald[3] formerly Lieut. now Capt. of the
Sloop of War named the _George_ was read in these words.

[Footnote 3: Later in the war Sibbald greatly distinguished himself in
a privateering voyage in command of the _George_ (cruising in company
with the _Joseph and Mary_, refitted prize, in 1742) and of the
_Wilmington_. _Memorial Hist. Phila._, I. 247; _Pa. Mag. Hist._, I.
247, XXXII. 466. In the next war he was commander of the province's
frigate _Pennsylvania_, from 1757 to 1759. _Pa. Archives_, III. 190,
658. The ships' register of the port of Philadelphia shows the sloop
_George_, of 50 tons, John Sibbald owner, sailing out on this present
voyage Nov. 12, 1740. _Pa. Mag. Hist._, XXIII. 513.]

Pensilvania, in the Court To the Hon'ble Andrew
of Vice Adml'ty Hamilton, Esqr., Judge
ss. of the Court of Vice Admiralty
for the Province
of Pensilvania.[4]

[Footnote 4: Andrew Hamilton the elder (1676-1741), the most famous
lawyer of Pennsylvania, defender of John Peter Zenger, constructor of
the State House (Independence Hall), speaker of the assembly
1729-1739, was admiralty judge from 1738 to 1741. He died a few weeks
after this trial, Aug. 4, 1741. For a sketch of him, see _Historical
Magazine_, XIV. 49-59.]

John Sibbald, now Captain and Commander of the Sloop of War named the
_George_, of the Burthen of Fifty Tons, mounted with twenty-four guns
and now riding at Anchor in the Port of Philadelphia, gives the Court
here to understand and be informed, That the Sloop afd. was equipped,
victualled, fitted out and armed at the proper Costs and Charges of
himself and others, owners of the said Sloop, Inhabitants of this
Province and Subjects of his present Majesty George the Second, King
of Great Britain, France and Ireland,