CHAP. XII.
of
Captain Anſtis,
And his Crew.
Thomas Anſtis ſhip’d himſelf at Providence in the Year 1718, aboard the Buck Sloop, and was one of ſix that conſpired together to go off a pyrating with the Veſſel; the reſt were, Howel Davis, Roberts’s Predeceſſor, killed at the Iſland of Princes; Dennis Topping, killed at the taking of the rich Portugueſe Ship on the Coaſt of Braſil; Walter Kennedy, hanged at Execution-Dock, and two others, which I forbear to name, becauſe, I underſtand they are at this Day employ’d in an honeſt Vocation in the City.
What followed concerning Anſtis’s Pyracies, has been included in the two preceeding Chapters; I ſhall only obſerve that the Combination of theſe ſix Men abovementioned, was the Beginning of that Company, that afterwards proved ſo formidable under Captain Roberts, from whom Anſtis ſeparated the 18th of April 1721, in the Good Fortune Brigantine, leaving his Commadore to purſue his Adventures upon the Coaſt of Guiney, whilſt he returned to the Weſt-Indies, upon the like Deſign.
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