pally ketches, they had little ability to resist an attack of the enemy. In 1673, the Providence, belonging to Richard Hollingsworth, was captured off Block Island while on a voyage to Virginia, and in the same year, a vessel owned by John Grafton of Salem was also taken. It had on board for the Southern market a large quantity of rum, salt, sugar, mackerel, and cloth.[1]
An increased number of powers of attorney from New England merchants were placed on record in the county courts in the interval between 1670 and 1685. Among these merchants were Thomas Hillard, Joseph Townsend, Anthony Haywood, Thomas Maul, John Price, Richard West, Jonathan Corwin, John Pinchon, and Peter Sergeant. They secured their debts by mortgages upon the plantations, servants, slaves, and live stock of their debtors.[2] In one instance, Henry Ashton, a planter residing in Lancaster County, sold to John Saffin of Boston a house in that town in consideration of twenty-two pounds sterling, but this was probably a transfer of property, in which no security for previous obligations entered.[3]
- ↑ Documents Relating to the Colonial History of New York, vol. II, p. 662. There are several references in the Records of Northampton County to a ketch named the Providence. See original vol. 1664-1674, f. pp. 170, 173. Some years later the brigantine, the Rose of New England, came near being wrecked in Lynnhaven Bay. Records of Lower Norfolk County, original vol. 1675-1686, f. p. 233.
- ↑ Records of Lancaster County, original vol. 1666-1682, p. 398. Records of Middlesex County, original vol. 1679-1694, p. 1. In 1673, Anthony Checkley and John Malley of Boston made a single shipment to Cherrystone in Northampton of goods valued at £171 9s. Records of Northampton County, original vol. 1664-1674, f. p. 187.
- ↑ Records of Lancaster County, original vol. 1666-1682, p. 190. There are entries in the county records which show that persons residing in Virginia not infrequently removed to Now England, and, on the other hand, that citizens of New England sometimes established themselves in Virginia. In the will of Captain Nathaniel Walker of Northampton (original vol. 1683-1689, p. 24), he describes himself as “late of Boston, now of Northampton.” On another occasion, he speaks of himself as “formerly of New England.” Records of Northampton County, original vol. 1664-1674, f. p. 175. In 1679, Thomas Bridge of Lower Norfolk County disposed of several tracts of land which he owned in that county, and took up his residence in Salem, Massachusetts. Records of Lower Norfolk County, original vol. 1675-1686, f. p. 76.
