An Account of the Conduct and Proceedings of the Late John Gow Alias Smith, Captain of the Late Pirates

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Excerpt from An Account of the Conduct and Proceedings of the Late John Gow Alias Smith, Captain of the Late Pirates: Executed for Murther and Piracy Committed on Board the George Gally, Afterwards Call'd the Revenge; With a Relation of All the Horrid Murthers They Committed on Cold Blood: As Also of Their Being Taken at the Islands of Orkney, and Sent Up Prisoners to Lo
This, it feems, was not diji'over'd to the Captain, till a?er the Ship was difcharg'd in the Port of London, and the Men paid of and def mifs'd 5 when Information heing given, the faid Captain endeavonr'd to have apprehended Cow and his Accomplicesg hut having as 'twas fap pos'd) gotten fome Notice of the Defign, made of and jhifted for themfelves as well as they could, in which it was his Lot togo over to Holland.
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