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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 341 (part 3)

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] 577 committed piracies in the West Indies on the subjects of the King, his master, and that his Lieutenant Jan van Campen continued the same robberies with his ship, and by his orders; having among other things captured near the Island of Jamaica, after a bloody engagement, a Spanish ship which he carried into and sold with all its cargo at. New Netherland, according to the allegations of divers authentic affidavits; and Juan Gallardo Ferara, a native of St. Lucar de Barrameda, and pilot of said ship, was particularly interested in said prize, having lost, exclusive of many articles of considerable value, nine negroes, his own property, and thirty-six others, the property of Antonio de Rivera, who were under his care.