Page:A general history of the pyrates, from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present time (1724).djvu/409

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Of Capt. John Evans.
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deſired to take upon him the Command of the Sloop, in the Room of Captain Evans deceaſed; but he deſired to be excuſed that Honour, and at length poſitively refuſed it; ſo they agreed to break up the Company, and leave the Mate in Poſſeſſion of the Veſſel: Accordingly they went aſhore at the Caimanes, carrying with them about nine thouſand Pounds among thirty Perſons; and it being fair Weather, the Mate and a Boy brought the Veſſel into Port Royal, in Jamaica.



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