Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period. Various

Iron clamps

       1 bagg of 2d. nayles

       2 baggs of 4d. nayles.

       2 pruneing hookes for gardens

       8 musquets (1 noe lock)

       5 Iron hinges for ports

       80 great speeks[22]

       2 pintles

       2 good Irons

       1 top chaine

       3 great rings

       1 basket of sheathing nayles } halfe full each.

       1 basket of 40d. nayles }

       1 fiz gigg[23]

       4 hookes

       1 shovel

       12 small rings

       1 poope lanthhorne

       1 Iron mill with 2 winches

       1 cross cutt saw

       2 chaine bolts more

       2 pumpe Irons

       2 table hookes

       1 shirk hooke[24]

       2 dogg Irons

       2 doz. of 8 Inch blocks

       1 doz. of 6 Inch blocks

       1 doz. of 4 Inch blocks

       11 blocks of 6 and 4 Inch

       1 doz. of 5 Inch blocks

       7 of 14 Inch blocks

       1 topsaile sheete block

       3 double table blocks

       17 dead eyes

       9 pump uper boxes

       10 dito lower

       5 blacking barrels

       8 small glasses

       1 wach glass

       4 cumpasses

       12 sk. twine

       about halfe a barrel of powder

       8 yards of canvas

       2 pa. Stilliards without peises

       3 small baggs of 2d. nayles (in a bagg)

       1 dipsey lead[25] 18 lb.

       2 pistalls

       1 carbine

       1 p'ce Leather

       1 small fouleing peece

       3 straw hatts

       3 cables and 2 hallsers

       4 anckors (sheet, best bower, small bower and kedge)

       5 Iron gunns

       The Ship Providence and standing rigging with long

       boat and Skiffe.

In Obedience to a Warrant Comeing from the County Court held in Boston the 30th day of Aprill 1673, Unto us whose names are hereunder written, for to take an Inventory of the Estate and goods in the Shipp Providence of Falmouth, lately arived in Piscataqua River, etc., and to Render an acco't thereof unto the present Deputy Governor by the 7th of May, wee haveing accordingly done the same (as time would afford) Doe Signifie Unto the Honourable Deputy Governor, that the before mentioned particulars are the whole, that to our certaine knowleidg is come (in the said shipp) and that, according to the wrighting at the beginning hereof, they are Secured in the said Fryers hands and the shipp well mored in the harbour at the Great Island in Piscataqua River.

May the 5th, 1673.

Nathaniell Fryer. Henry Dering.

      [1] Suffolk Court Files, no. 1257, paper 16. In the margin of the original document, each indication of a parcel (such as "a large hhd.") is accompanied by a representation of the monogram or other symbol which the parcel bore as a distinguishing mark.

[2] French (?) falls; a fall was a collar falling flat around the neck.

[3] Plain.

[4] A linen fabric.

[5] Coarse linen.

[6] Women's.

[7] Damaged.

[8] Gowns.

[9] Justaucorps.

[10] Double camlet.

[11] Stomachers.

[12] Flannel.

[13] Narrow braid of gold, silver, or silk thread.

[14] Coils.

[15] The ensign was the ship's chief flag. The jack was a small flag, in this case no doubt the union jack, combining the crosses on the flags of England and of Scotland, and was at this time commonly flown at the spritsail-topmast head.

[16] Of the various ropes here mentioned, bowlines and brails ran to the perpendicular sides of square sails, buntlines across their fronts; clew-garnets and clewlines were tackles for clewing up the lower and the upper square sails respectively, jeers for hoisting the lower yards; lifts ran from the masthead to the yard-arms, leech lines to the sides of the topsails.

[17] Simple instruments for taking altitudes (and so determining latitudes).

[18] Tiffany, thin transparent silk.

[19] Collars.

[20] Woollen stuff used for linings.