PRIVATEERING AND PIRACY

IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

COPYRIGHT, 1923,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and printed. Published December, 1923.

Press of

J. J. Little & Ives Company

New York, U. S. A.

TO THE HONORED MEMORY OF

JOHN JAMESON

OF BOSTON

1828-1905

VOYAGER, TEACHER, LAWYER, SCHOLAR

UN

WHOSE LOVE OF LEARNING AND WHOSE SELFISH DEVOTION MADE IT NATURAL AND POSSIBLE

THAT I SHOULD LEAD THE STUDENT'S LIFE