When he was here many flocked to him from all parts -- men of desperate fortunes and necessitous, in expectation of getting vast treasures." " He sailed from hence with 150 men, as I am informed; a great part of them are of this province. It is generally believed, here, they would have money per fas a nt fief as -- that if he miss of the design intended for which he has commissioned, it will not be in Kid's poK'cr to govern snch a horde of men under no pay. His subsequent career is well known ; in 1699 he was made prisoner in Boston,0 sent to England, and there executed in 1701.'"*

. The following ballad (attributed to Kid,)* pretends to set forth his veritable history. It is entitled --

a The tradition is, that she was taken by pirates, all hands raardered and abandoned, alter being set on lire by the buccaneers. Some accounts state that a large white horse which was on board, was left near the foremast to perish in the names, and in storms of peculiarly terrific violence, that she may be seen, rushing along enveloped in lire, the horse stamping and pawing at the heel of the foremast, her phautoin crew assembled at quarters.-- Oallopanumg A merican Scenery, by A. B. Sitliman.

b Oallop among American Scenery, bv A. B. Silliman, *>12.

c Hutchinson says (vol. li. 119) that when the oitlcer arrested him he attempted to draw his sword, but was prevented by a person iu company. (1 New Jersey Hist. 800. Collect, 146.