ABSTRACT
SPRIGGS sailed with Low for a pretty while, and I believe came away from Lowther, along with him. He was quartermaster to the company and consequently had a great share in all the barbarities committed by that execrable gang, till the time they parted, which was about Christmas last, when Low took a ship of 22 guns on the coast of Guinea, called the Delight (formerly the Squirrel man-of-war) commanded by Captain Hunt. Spriggs took possession of the ship with eighteen men, left Low in the night, and came to the West Indies. This separation was occasioned by a quarrel with Low concerning a piece of justice Spriggs would have executed upon one of the crew, for killing a man in cold blood, as they call it, one insisting that he should be hanged, and the other that he should not.
