Note 5 — THE REVENGE. (continued 2)
Reading edition
"Francis Wilks, esq., a director in the South Sea Company, died July 5." Gentleman's Magazine, XII. 387. He had been agent in London for the Massachusetts House of Representatives since 1728, and for Connecticut since 1730. Hutchinson, Mass. Bay, II. 353, describes him as a "merchant in London who ... was universally esteemed for his great probity as well as his humane obliging disposition".