ing and
Enemies of our Said Lord King George the Second the said Richard
Haddon hath brought into this his Majesties port of New York in the
said Schooner _Peggy_ in Order to have the Same Legally Condemned by
the Sentence and Decree of this Honourable Court (But the said
Schooner being unfitt to Come upon a Winters Coast and he the said
Richard Haddon having a Great Number of prisoners Delivered her to a
Number of them to Carry them to some french port After takeing out of
her the Money, Goods and Chattles aforesaid) Wherefore the said
Richard Haddon Humbly prays your Honour that the said Money,
Bracelett, Rings, Buckells, Swivell Guns, Shott, Powder, Cutlasses
and Indigo Aforesaid belonging to the Subjects of the french King and
Enemies of our Said Lord the King may by the Sentence and Adjudication
of this Honourable Court be Condemned as Lawfull prize to the Use of
the said Richard Haddon and the Owners and Company of the said
Schooner _Peggy_ According to the Common Right of Nations and the Law
of Arms in Such Case used.

RICHD. MORRIS Pr.[9] for the Lybellent.

[Footnote 3: Richard Haddon, mariner, was a New Jersey man, but became
a freeman of New York City in 1749; _N.Y. Hist. Soc. Fund Pubs._,
1885, p. 167. An extract from a letter of his, written during this
same cruise, Dec. 29, 1756, and conveying valuable information he had
picked up respecting the proposed expedition of the French up the
Mississippi to the Illinois country, is printed in _N.Y. Col. Docs._,
VII. 219; it was an enclosure in a letter from Governor Hardy of New
York to Secretary Pitt, Feb. 26, 1757, printed in Miss Kimball's
_Correspondence of William Pitt_, I. 12; _cf._ p. 31.]

[Footnote 4: Jasper Farmer, merchant, owner in several privateers of
the time, and militia captain, was killed a few months later, Apr. 23,
1758, by one whom he was trying to impress.]

[Footnote 5: Also an owner in several privateers; will (1778) in _N.Y.
Hist. Soc. Fund Pubs._, 1900, p. 50.]

[Footnote 6: A scribe must have misread the figure 81, which appears
in other documents, into 87. In reality, 87 deg. 57' W., in the latitude
named, would locate the capture on dry land, in Yucatan. It took place
near the Isle of Pines, south of the western part of Cuba.]

[Footnote 7: A doubloon was a Spanish gold coin, equal to $8.24.]

[Footnote 8: A pistareen or peseta was equal to about 19 cents.]

[Footnote 9: Proctor. Richard Morris (1730-1810), son of the judge