Massachusetts (Colony) Court of Admiralty.
Quelch, John, 1666?-1704, defendant.
The arraignment, tryal, and condemnation, of Capt. John Quelch, and others of his company, &c., for sundry piracies, robberies and murder, committed upon the subjects of the King of Portugal, Her Majesty’s allie, on the coast of Brasil, &c. who upon full evidence, were found guilty, at the Court-house in Boston, on the thirteenth of June, 1704, By virtue of a commission, grounded upon the Act of the eleventh and twelfth years of King William, for the more effectual suppression of piracy. With the arguments of the Queen’s council, and coun- cil for the prisoners upon the said act. Perused by His Ex- cellency Joseph Dudley, esq; captain-general and commander
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