o the
Capt. from Mr. Freebody that he had waited on his Honour the Govr.[11]
and that he wou'd not Give him leave to beat up for Voluntiers. the
Chief Reason he Gave was that the City was thined of hands by the 2
Country Sloops that were fitted out by the Council to Crueze after the
Spanish privateers on the Coast and that his Grace the Duke of
Newcastle had wrote him word[12] that if Admiral Vernon or Genl.
Wentworth shoud writte for more Recruits to Use his Endeavours to Gett
them, so that he could not Give Encouragem't to any privateers to take
their men away. Three of the hands that went up to York left us, Viz.
George Densey, John Holmes and William Webster. Att 4 PM. Edward
Sampford our Pilott went a shoar in a Conoe with four more hands
without Leave from the Capt. when he Came on Board again the Capt.
talkt to him and found that he was a Mutineous Quarelsome fellow so
Ordered him to bundle up his Clothes and Go a shoare for Good. he
Carryed with him 5 more hands, Viz. Duncan McKenley, Foelix Burn, John
Smith, Humphry Walters and John Taylor (poor Encouragement to Gett
hands when they leave Us so fast). After they were Gone I read the
Articles to those on Board who Readily Signed So hope we shall Lead a
peaceable Life. Remains out of the 41 hands that Came with Us from
Rhode Island, 29 hands.

[Footnote 11: George Clarke, lieutenant-governor 1736-1743.]

[Footnote 12: Newcastle's letter of Dec. 4, 1740, which Clarke had
received May 7, 1741. _N.Y. Col. Docs._, VI. 187. It was doubtless
similar to the letter of the same date to the governor of Rhode
Island, printed in Miss Kimball's _Correspondence of the Colonial
Governors of Rhode Island_, I. 187. Newcastle was secretary of state.
Vernon and Wentworth had already failed to capture Cartagena, but this
was not yet known in New York.]

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_Account of the Provisions taken on Board the Sloop Revenge att Rhode
Island, Viz._

Beef 50 bb. at L7. 10 per bb. L375
Pork 18 bb. L12 per bb. 216
Flowr 64 bb. L8 per bb. 512
Bread 50 C. L4 per C. 200
Beans 10 bus. 8
Rum 100 Gall. 10s. per Ga. 50
Sugar 1C.2[13] L8 per C. 12
Hogs fatt a Cagg[14] 7
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L1380
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[Footnote 13: _I.e._, one hundred (112 lbs.) and two quarters (56
lbs.).]

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