Note 133 — ASHTON’S MEMORIAL An History of the Strange Adventures, and Signal Deliverances of Mr. PHILIP ASHTON, Jun. of Marblehead

Joseph Libbie also served, unwillingly, at first. He was with Low in the “Rose Frigate,” when she was lost in careening in the spring of 1723, and pulled Philip Ashton out of the water. He then served with Low’s consort, Capt. Charles Harris, in the sloop “Ranger,” and on June 10, 1723, with Harris and forty-two others, was taken by H. M. ship “Greyhound,” Capt. Peter Solgard, commander, between Block Island and Long Island, and brought into Newport, R. I. The pirates were duly tried and on Friday, July 19th, 1723, Captain Harris, Joseph Libbie and twenty-four others were hanged within the seamark inside of two hours.