 | Select epitaphs, William Toldervy - 1755 - 494 pages
...Bahama, On the North Side ofHi/famola, A Spanijh Plate Ship; Which had been under Water forty-four Years. Out of which he took, in Gold and Silver, to the Value Of Three Hundred Thoufand Pounds Sterling ? And with a Fidelity, equal to his Conduft, B;ouaht it all to London; Where... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 796 pages
...Industry, discovered among the Rocks, near the Banks of Bahama, on the N. Side of Hisflaniola, a S/taniafi Plateship, which had been under water 44 years, out...of which he took in Gold and Silver to the value of 3000001. Sterling ; and with a Fidelity equal to his conduct, brought it all to London, where it was... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 pages
...discovered among the Rocks, near the Banks of Bahama, on the N. Side of Hisftaruola, a Spanish Plan-ship, which had been under water 44 years, out of which he took in Gold and Silver to the value of 3000001. Sterling ; and with a Fidelity equal to his conduct, brought it all to London, where it was... | |
 | Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1812 - 646 pages
...a sudden fortune by a lucky expedient, was knighted, and afterwards made {overnor of the Province. The rocks, near the banks of Bahama, on The north...Thousand pounds sterling, and with a Fidelity equal lo hi-, conduct, brought it All to London, where it was divided . Between himself and the rest of the... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 698 pages
...Bahama, on The north side of Hispaniola, a Spanish plateShip, which had been under water 44 Years, oat of which he took in gold and Silver to the value of...Thousand pounds sterling, and with a Fidelity equal to hi., conduct, brought it All to London, where it was divided Between himself and the rest of the adventurers... | |
 | Genealogy - 1850 - 420 pages
...cross-potent, &c., and likewise the figures of a sea-quadrant, cross-staff, &c., and this inscription : — Near this place is interred the Body of Sir WILLIAM...of which he took in gold and silver to the value of £300000 sterling; and, with a fidelity equal to his conduct, brought it all to London, where it was... | |
 | 1857 - 426 pages
...among the rocks near the banks of Bahama, " a Spanish plate-ship, which had been under water forty-four years, out of which he took, in gold and silver, to...the value of three hundred thousand pounds sterling" ; at Black Nottey in Essex, of John Ray, the eminent naturalist, like Solomon, " to whom alone perhaps... | |
 | James Roderick O'Flanagan - Judges - 1870 - 620 pages
...The rocks, near the banks of Bahama on The north side of Hispaniola, a Spanish plate Ship, which hail been under water 44 Years, out of which he took in...Fidelity equal to his conduct, brought it All to London whore it was divided Between himself and the rest of the adventurers ; for Which great service he was... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1878 - 616 pages
...cross-potent, &c., and likewise the figures of a sea-quadrant, cross-staff, &c., and this inscription: — " ' Near this place is interred the Body of Sir WILLIAM...of which he took in gold and silver to the value of £300,000 sterling; and, with a fidelity equal to his conduct, brought it all to London, where it was... | |
 | Samuel Sewall - Boston (Mass.) - 1878 - 588 pages
...cross-potent, &c., and likewise the figures of a sea-quadrant, cross-staff, &c., and this inscription: — " ' Near this place is interred the Body of Sir WILLIAM...of which he took in gold and silver to the value of £300,000 sterling; and, with a fidelity equal to his conduct, brought it all to London, where it was... | |
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Knight; who, in the year 1687, by his great industry, discovered among the rocks near the Banks of Bahama on the north side of Hispaniola, a Spanish plateship, which had been under water 44 years, out of which he took in gold and silver to the value of... 
