Massachusetts Bay, President of the Court.

The thirty-six Pirates taken by Capt. Solgard, were tried, when
Charles Harris, who acted as captain, and 25 of his men, were
found guilty, and sentenced to suffer death, and 10 men were
acquitted on the ground of having been forced into their service.

_Execution of the Pirates._

On Friday the 19th of July, the 26 Pirates were taken to a place
in Newport, called Bull's Point, (now Gravelly Point,) within the
flux and reflux of the sea, and there hanged. The following are
their names:--Charles Harris, Thomas Linnicar, Daniel Hyde,
Stephen Mundon, Abraham Lacy, Edward Lawson, John Tomkins,
Francis Laughton, John Fisgerald, Wm. Studfield, Owen Rice, Wm.
Read, Wm. Blades, Tho's Hagget, Peter Cues, Wm. Jones, Edward
Eaton, John Brown, James Sprinkly, Joseph Sound, Charles Church,
John Waters, Tho's Powell, Joseph Libbey, Thomas Hazel, John
Bright.

The Pirates were all young men, most of them were natives of
England, Wm. Blades was from Rhode Island and Thomas Powell from
Wethersfield, (Conn.); after the execution, their bodies were
taken to the north end of Goat Island, and buried on the shore,
between high and low water mark.

As this was the most extensive execution of Pirates that ever
took place at one time in the Colonies, it was attended by a vast
multitude from every part of New England.