N01600:14
Instructions to the living, from the condition of the dead. A brief relation of…
Instructions to the living, from the condition of the dead. A brief relation of remarkables in the shipwreck of above one hundred pirates, who were cast away in the ship Whido, on the coast of New-England, April 26. 1717. And in the death of six, who after a fair trial at Boston, were convicted & condemned, Octob. 22. And executed, Novemb. 15. 1717. : With some account of the discourse had with them on the way to their execution. And a sermon preached on their occasion.
Boston: printed by John Allen for Nicholas Boone, 1717
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A Storm was now raised and raging […] the Whido ignorantly following the Light of her Stranded Prize, perished in a Shipwreck, and the whole Crew were every one of them drowned, except only one Englishman, and one Indian, that were […] on Shore alive.
A Storm was now raised and raging 〈…〉 the Whido ignorantly following the Light of her Stranded Prize, perished in a Shipwreck, and the whole Crew were every one of them drowned, except only one Englishman, and one Indian, that were 〈…〉 on Shore alive.
§ 3. It is credibly affirmed, That when these Barbarous Wretches, perceived that their Ship was breaking under them, and that they must Swim for their Lives, they horribly Murdered all their Prisoners (whereof they had a great Number) aboard; […] they should appear […] Witnesses against them. The doleful […] heard unto the Shore, a little before they […] and the Bloody Wounds found in the Bodies afterwards thrown ashore; were two great Confirmations of this Report.
§ 3. It is ••redibly affirmed, That when these Barbarous Wretches, perceived that their Ship was breaking under them, and that they must Swim for their Lives, they horribly Murdered all their Prisoners (whereof they had a great Number) aboard; 〈…〉 they should appear 〈…〉 Witnesses against them. The doleful 〈…〉 heard unto the Shore, a little before they 〈…〉 and the Bloody Wounds found in the Bodies afterwards thrown ashore; were two great Confirmations of this Report.