The Writer States, That "The Expectation
Of That Ship Made Us Loose Our Second Voyage, Which Did Very Much
Discourage The Merchants With Whom Wee Had To Do; They Went To Law With Us
To Make Us Recant The Bargaine That Wee Had Made With Them.
After wee had
disputed a long time, it was found that the right was on our side and wee
innocent of what they did accuse us.
So they endeavoured to come to an
agreement, but wee were betrayed by our own party.
"In the mean time the Commissioners of the King of Great Britain arrived in
that place, & one of them would have us goe with him to New York, and the
other advised us to come to England and offer ourselves to the King, which
wee did." The Commissioners were Colonel Richard Nicolls, Sir Robert Carr,
Colonel George Cartwright, and Samuel Mavericke. Sir Robert Carr wished the
two Frenchmen to go with him to New York, but Colonel George Cartwright,
erroneously called by Radisson in his manuscript "Cartaret," prevailed upon
them to embark with him from Nantucket, August 1, 1665. On this voyage
Cartwright carried with him "all the original papers of the transactions of
the Royal Commissioners, together with the maps of the several colonies."
They had also as a fellow passenger George Carr, presumably the brother of
Sir Robert, and probably the acting secretary to the Commission. Colonel
Richard Nicolls, writing to Secretary Lord Arlington, July 31, 1665, Says,
"He supposes Col.
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