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Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period

Note 2 — CASE OF JOHN QUELCH AND HIS FELLOW PIRATES.

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Nathaniel Byfield—founder of Bristol, Mass, (now R.I.), nephew of Archbishop Juxon and grandson of that Rev. Richard Byfield who was vicar of Stratford-on-Avon during most of Shakespeare's life—was commissioned admiralty judge for Massachusetts and Rhode Island during brief periods in 1698 and 1703, again 1704-1715 and 1728-1732.

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