to be sound and just, and Husband was commanded to restore both the ship and the cargo. He had stolen away, however, with the vessel before he could be intercepted, and in consequence, the court ordered all the papers relating to the case to be transmitted to England as a basis for his prosecution in the courts of that country.[1]
There are indications that Dutch ships set out for Holland from Virginia in the course of 1651 and 1652, having probably left subsequent to the surrender to Parliament, in which event they had been permitted to load without having first obtained a special license.[2] In 1653, the need of such a license was recognized by the authorities of the Colony, doubtless, however, in consequence of the war which had now broken out between England and Holland.[3] In that year the overtures of Stuyvesant for
- ↑ Records of Northampton County, original vol. 1654-1655, pp. 126, 127. See also William and Mary College Quarterly, April, 1893, p. 152. The following is from the records of Northampton: “Agreement between the Master of the Farewell and Rowd from Amsterdam of one part, and John Johnson and John Makule, both of Graft, of ye other part, that the vessel now (1652) lying at Accomac shall go to Holland to load.” Records of Northampton County, original vol. 1651-1654, July 3, 1652, p. 95.
- ↑ Sainsbury’s Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, 1574-1660, pp. 389, 395, 403. In a letter to Stuyvesant, Aug. 6, 1652, the Directors of the West India Company inform him that they had received his reports by way of English Virginia. Documents Relating to Colonial History of New York, vol. XIV, p. 185. See also p. 165.
- ↑ There is in the Records of Northampton County, original vol. 1651-1654, folio p. 144, the entry of an Act of Assembly in which it is stated that Parliament had in January, 1653 (N. S.), instructed the Governor and Burgesses to take the proper steps to protect the Colony from the attacks of the Dutch. New England shipowners who were engaged in the Virginia trade do not appear, even when the war was in progress, to have admitted the legal necessity of securing a special license. See Records of Lower Norfolk County, original vol. 1651-1656, folio p. 161. The voyage here proposed was not carried out. The form of the special license will be found in Maryland Archives, Proceedings of the Council, 1636-1667, p. 382.
