ABSTRACT
Pedro Menendez Marquez writes me that he took the depositions of three negroes who speak Spanish and remained behind when the corsair left. They say he meant to leave all the negroes he had in a fort and settlement established at Jacan by the English who went there a year ago. (p. 3) There he intended to leave the 250 blacks and all the small craft he had, and cross to England with only the larger vessels with which he threatened these forts and this city, to which he says he will return when it shall be less ready to receive him.
