d Authorize Jasper Farmer[4] and
Nathaniell Marston[5] of the City of New York Merchants to Sett forth
in warr Like manner the said Schooner called the _peggy_ under the
Command of the said Richard Haddon, therewith by force of Arms to
Attack, Surprize, Seize and take by and with the said Schooner and the
crew thereof any place or fortress upon the Land or any Ship or
Vessell, Goods, Amunition, Arms, Stores of Warr or Merchandize
belonging to or possessed by any of his said Majesties Enemies in any
Sea, Creek, Haven or River and Such other Ships, Vessells and Goods
which are or shall be Lyable to Confiscation pursuant to the treaties
between his Said Majesty and Other princes, States and potentates and
to bring the same to such port as should be most convenient in Order
to have them Legally Adjudged in his said Majesties high Court of
Admiralty of England or before the Judges of such other Admiralty
Court as Shall be Lawfully Authorized within his Majesties Dominions,
which being Condemned it Should and might be Lawfull for the said
Richard Haddon to sell and Dispose of Such Ships, Vessells, and Goods,
Amunition, Arms, Stores of Warr or Merchandise so Adjudged and
Condemned in Such sort and Manner as by the Course of the Admiralty
hath been Accustomed as by the said Commission may more fully Appear,
and the said Richard Haddon Doth further Show unto your Honour that in
pursuance of his Said Commission on or About the Seventh Day of
December Last past being on the High Seas within the Jurisdiction of
this Court in the said Schooner _Peggy_ with his Company and Crew on
Board the Same in or About the Latitude of twenty-one Degrees and
Eighteen Minutes North Longitude Eighty Seven[6] Degrees fifty Seven
Minutes West from London he did meet with, sett upon and take a
Certain Schooner Belonging to the Subjects of the french King Enemies
of our Said Lord King George the Second, having on Board ten
Doubleloons,[7] five thousand seven hundred and Sixty four Dollars,
one hundred and five pistereens,[8] and Some Small Silver as also one
Bracelett, twenty Gold rings, Some Silver Buckells, six Swivell Guns,
Some Shott, one Cask of Powder, Some Cutlasses and one Kegg of Indigo
being the Money, Chattles, Goods and Effects of the Subjects of the
french King, Enemies of our Said Lord King George the Second, which
money, Bracelett, Rings, Buckells, Swivell Guns, Shott, powder,
Cutlasses and Indigo Belonging to the Subjects of the french K