Captain with an
Adds, and another man struck Burrell the Boatswain with a Broad Ax;
and the rest fell upon James [or Joseph] Sparks the Gunner, and having
in a few Minutes dispatched the said Four Officers, the rest of the
Pirates immediately surrendered themselves Prisoners". The result of
the trials here recorded was that William White and John Rose Archer
the quartermaster were condemned to die, William Phillips (not the
pirate captain), and William Taylor were reprieved and later pardoned,
the others were acquitted. _Acts and Resolves of Mass. Bay_, X. 627,
see also X. 437. A vivid account of the whole affair is given in the
second edition of Johnson, _General History of the Pyrates_, pp.
396-410; another, in _A Narration of the Captivity of John Fillmore,
and his Escape from the Pirates_ (Johnstown, N.Y., 1806).]

At a Court of Admiralty for the Tryal of Pirates held at Boston within
His Majesties Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England on the
twelfth day of May in the Tenth year of His Majesty's Reign Annoq
Domini 1724, Pursuant to His Maj'ties Commission Founded on an Act of
Parliament made in the Eleventh and twelfth years of King William the
Third Entituled An Act for the more Effectual suppression of
Piracy,[2] and made perpetual by an Act of the Sixth of King
[George].[3]

[Footnote 2: 11 and 12 Will. III. ch. 7.]

[Footnote 3: 6 Geo. I. ch. 19.]

Present. The Honorable William Dummer, Esqr., Lieutenant Governor and
Commander in Chief in and over His Maj'ties Province of the
Massachusetts Bay in New England,[4] President of the Court.

[Footnote 4: Acting governor 1722-1728.]

William Tailer Samuel Sewall }
Penn Townsend Edward Bromfield } Esqrs., of the Honorable
John Cushing Nathanl. Norden } Council of the Massachusetts
Thos. Hutchinson Samuel Browne } Bay.
Thomas Fitch Adam Winthrop }
Spencer Phipps }

The Hono'ble John Menzeis[5] } Esqrs., Commissioners Appointed
Thomas Durell } by His Maj'ties
Thomas Lechmere } said Commission.
John Jekyll }

[Footnote 5: Admiralty judge. Capt. Thomas Durell, R.N., was the
commander of H.M.S. _Seahorse_. Thomas Lechmere, younger brother of
Lord Lechmere, was surveyor general of the customs for the northern
district of America; he had married the only daughter of Major-Gen.
Wait Winthrop, and was a defendant in the celebrated case of W