Ned Low Brigantine Rebecca

This record is the brigantine Ned Low was aboard at Port-Rossaway on Friday, 15 June 1722, the vessel in Friday Harbor, Unit 01. Known, from John Barnard, Ashton’s Memorial (Boston: Samuel Gerrish, 1725; Evans TCP / OTA N02186). The schooner Milton, with Nicholas Merritt in a shallop, harboured in Port-Rossaway about four in the afternoon. A brigantine they supposed was an inward-bound vessel from the West Indies lay in the harbour. After two or three hours a boat with four hands boarded them. Ashton was carried aboard: the Infamous Ned Low, about 42 hands, 2 great guns, and 4 swivel guns. The memorial calls her a brigantine. It does not print the name Rebecca. James Castaway kept the pages. He did not walk that shore. Roatán is not this island. Known, from Captain Charles Johnson, A General History of the Pyrates (1724), chapter of Captain George Lowther. In latitude 38, on the night of 28 May 1722, Lowther’s company took a brigantine called the Rebecca, bound from St. Christopher’s toward Boston. The companies parted. Low went aboard the brigantine with 44 hands. The same book’s chapter on Edward Low does not repeat the name. It says a brigantine of Boston, and that Low went into

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