Note 3 — CASE OF JOHN QUELCH AND HIS FELLOW PIRATES.
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Nov. 7, 1704, Cranston had given a privateer's commission to Capt. John Halsey of the brigantine Charles, the vessel that had been Quelch's. The governor's confidence seems not to have been justified, for presently Halsey entered upon a large and lurid career of piracy, duly described in Johnson, General History of the Pyrates, II. 110-118.