Addenda: May 1697 | British History Online

Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 17, 1699 and Addenda 1621-1698. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1908.

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'Addenda: May 1697', in Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 17, 1699 and Addenda 1621-1698, ed. Cecil Headlam( London, 1908), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol17/p642 [accessed 29 November 2024].

May 1697



May 19. Jamaica.	1,353. Sir Wm. Beeston to the Duke of Shrewsbury. The approach of M. Pointis' squadron obliged me to detain H.M.S. Southampton and despatch the merchant ships without convoy. A fortnight past the Morning Slave of Holland, Abraham Leonardson, master, ran ashore on an island 12 leagues from here. He had been trading with the Spaniards. With the consent of the Council I allowed him to sell what he saved from the wreck. We made what preparation we could to resist M. Pointis, expecting his attack daily and putting ourselves to great expense. About March 20 he stood away for the Spanish Main. Had he come upon us I much question if we could have sustained the shock. On May 16, Vice-Admiral Nevill arrived with his squadron. Bad weather keeps him in port.
May 24.	A sloop from Porto Rico reports the Galleons are coming here to victual.
May 25.	Vice-Admiral Nevill sailed from Cartagena. Signed, Wm. Beeston. Holograph. 2 pp. [Colonial Papers, Vol. LXVI., No. 112.]