e naissance,
Pour l'avoir veu et connu a St. Domingue travailliant de son metier de
charpentier, Et si le petit negre qui a Ete pris avec luy est son
neveu comme il l'atteste, il est aussy libre, D'autant plus que le
pere et la mere dud. negre laville sont aussy affranchis, En foy de
quoy jay signe le present certificat, que jatteste veritable a la
nouvelle York le 26e juin 1762.

_(Translation)_

The undersigned certifies that the negro called Laville, now prisoner
in New York, is free born, having seen him and known him at St.
Domingo where he was working at his trade as carpenter, and if the
little negro captured with him is his nephew as he declares, it is
incontestable that he also is free, the more so that the father and
mother of the said negro Laville are also freed people. In testimony
whereof I have signed the present certificate, which I attest as
authentic. New York June 26, 1762.

INDEX

Abaco Keys, 405.

Abbot, William, 537, 540, 541, 543, 546, 549, 554, 565, 566.

Abbott, Richard, 196.

Abd-ul-Ghaffar, 156, 158.

Abercromby, _Capt._ (_Gen._) James, 485, 486, 489, 490.

Aberdeen, brigantine, 385.

Abraham, sailor, 315.

Abreu de Galindo, Juan, _History of the Canary Islands_, 373 n.

Accomac, Va., 263.

Achill, island, 161, 162, 164.

Acton, _Capt._ Edward, R.N., 192.

_Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial_, 153 n, 273 n, 291 n, 318 n, 469 n,
543 n, 577 n.

Adams, Henry, quartermaster, 171.

Adams, John, _Works_, 577 n.

Addington, Isaac, secretary, 213, 223, 286.

Addison, James, 400.

Aden, 194.

Admiral, Lord High, 312, 355.

Admiralty, High Court of, 143 n, 271 n, 275 n, 312-313, 348, 349, 351,
353, 378 n, 379, 442 n, 520, 521, 523, 579 n.

Admiralty, Lords of the, 245, 247, 347 n, 355, 376, 573 n, 575 n, 577, 578.

Admiralty courts, xi-xiii, 7, 8, 74 n, 141 n, 145, 146, 188, 312-313,
349, 516;
Jamaica, 36;
New York, 530 n;
Rhode Island, 285 n, 318-323, 575-576;
Spanish, 478 n;
Teneriffe, 478;
Virginia, 271;
_see also_ Vice-admiralty.

Admiralty judge, commissions, 321 n, 517-519, 519-523;
warrant for commissioning, 187-188.

_Adventure_, pirate ship, 217 n.

_Adventure Galley_, Kidd's ship, 190, 197, 198, 204, 205, 210, 212, 213,
214.

_Adventure Prize_, _see_ _Quedah Merchant_.

_Advice_, H.M.S., 192, 250 n.

Advocates, 439 n.

African Company, Brandenburg's, 82 n;
_see also_ Royal African Company.

Agadir, 487 n.

Agreem