Note 4 — THE ELIZABETH.

Maj. William Pinckney (1703-1766), deputy secretary and afterward commissary general of the province; grandfather of Governor Charles Pinckney. In the volume in which this commission is found, it is indexed as James Michie's commission from Governor Glen, the document which follows (no. 181) as his commission from England. Sometimes, especially in the earlier period, admiralty judges in the colonies were commissioned by the respective governors acting under warrants from the lords of the admiralty empowering them so to do (e.g., doc. no. 69); more often they were commissioned directly by those lords, under the great seal of the admiralty. Docs. nos. 180 and 181 illustrate the two forms.