Low, who takes up a loaded Muſquet and fires at the Captain, but miſſing him, ſhot another poor Fellow thro’ the Head, then put off the Boat, and with his twelve Companions goes to Sea: The next Day they took a ſmall Veſſel, and go in her, make a black Flag, and declare War againſt all the World.
They then proceeded to the Iſland of the Grand Caimanes, intending to have fitted up their ſmall Veſſel, and prepare themſelves as well as their Circumſtances would permit, for their honourable Employment; but falling in Company with George Lowther, another Pyrate there, who paying his Compliments to Low, as great Folks do to one another when they meet, and offering himſelf as an Ally; Low accepted of the Terms, and ſo the Treaty was preſently ſign’d without Plenipo’s or any other Formalities.
We have already given an Account of their joynt Pyracies, under Lowther as chief Commander, till the 28th of May, 1722, when they took a Brigantine of Boſton, bound thither from St. Chriſtophers, at which Time they parted, and Edward Low went into the Brigantine, with forty four others, who choſe him their Captain: They took with them two Guns, four Swivels, ſix Quarter-Casks of Powder, Proviſions and ſome Stores, and ſo left Lowther to proſecute his Adventures, with the Men he had left.
Their firſt Adventure in the Brigantine, was on Sunday the 3d Day of June, when they took a Veſſel belonging to Amboy, John Hance Maſter, whom he rifled of his Proviſions, and let go; the ſame Day he met with a Sloop, James Calquhoon Maſter, off of Rhode Iſland, bound into that Port, whom he firſt plundered, and then cut away his Boltſprit, and all his Rigging, alſo his Sails from the Yards, and wounded the Maſter, to prevent his gettingin
