ABSTRACT
WE are now going to give an account of one whose name is better known in England, than most of those whose histories we have already related. The person we mean is Captain Kid, whose public trial and execution here rendered him the subject of all conversation, so that his actions have been chanted about in ballads. However, it is now a considerable time since these things passed, and though the people knew in general that Captain Kid was hanged, and that his crime was Piracy, yet there were scarce any, even at that time, who were acquainted with his life or actions, or could account for his turning Pirate.
