Note 2 — CASE OF WILLIAM KIDD.

The maid was most likely Elizabeth Morris, whose indenture of apprenticeship to Capt. William Kidd, Aug. 19, 1695, is printed in N.Y. Hist. Soc., Coll., 1885, pp. 571-572. She had then just come out from England in Kidd's old barkentine the Antigua, which Governor Codrington of the Leeward Islands had given him in 1690 to reward his services and replace the ship then stolen from him (see doc. no. 71, note 1, and Portland MSS., VIII. 78) and which had apparently been his ship ever since. She was indentured to him as a maidservant for four years, from July 14, 1695, to July 14, 1699. The council ordered Sarah Kidd's plate to be returned to her.