George Geery< no role > This name instance is in set 11420. assumed the name of Wood, a shipmate of his, formerly well known among the sea-fareing people in many of the Ports of England and America, and of universal good character; which character Geery thought might be of some avail to him, whenever brought to the bar of justice, which, conscious of his crimes, he daily expected. He got the name of Justice on board of the Black Prince, from his abhorrence to the cruelties he saw exercised there by the pirating crew, where also he would have been a martyr to their vengeance, had not his firm attachment to any engagement or promise he made among or to them, been ever experienced by them; of which the following is a particular instance. The magistrate before whom he was brought, when first apprehended, taxed him with his having been a sailor on board the Black Prince, which he strenuously denied; and though assured of his life, if he would confess the truth, and become an evidence for the Crown, he rather chose to run the hazard of looseing it, on this principle, that by his death, only one family, which were his own, could be involved in ruin; but, if he became an evidence, many others must equally share the same fate. But however, though he left the unpleasing task of prosecution to those whose sentiments might be more strongly engaged for the public wealth, the good of mankind, and the benefit of community, yet he could not reconcile to his guilty conscience, the thoughts of leaving this world with such a load of iniquity, and horrible cruelty, as he then was about to reveal to me, concealed in his breast; uncertain of the endless happiness, or misery which must be his portion in the world where he, and all of us, must, at the last and awful day appear before the almighty, great, and most powerful judge of quick and dead, to receive this last and final sentence, Come ye blessed into the kingdom of my father, prepared for you and all his holy angels: Or, go ye accursed into fire everlasting, prepared for the Devil and his servants: From which, nothing but an upright, virtuous, and holy life, with a firm confidence on and belief in our God and Saviour; or a sincere repentance of those sins, which the depravity of our natures have led us into, and a thorough resolution of amendment of life, if God gives us the opportunity, can free us from; withall, firmly depending on the suffering and merits of our blessed Saviour, who, for a full encouragement to work out our own salvation, has spoken to us, and all mankind, in these word; Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest; for my yoke is easy, and my burden light; wash ye therefore, and make ye clean; cease to do evil, learn to do well; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes, and fall down and worship before the Lord your God, who hath so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, to the end, that all who believe in and obey him should not perish, but have everlasting life. And who hath also declared, That there more joy in Heaven for one sinner that repenteth, than for ninety-nine just persons, who need no repentance; and that if any man sin, we have an advocate with the father, Jesus Christ, the righteous, who is the Propitiation of our sins. In consequence of all which, he desired that the following declaration should be made known to the world.

On the third day of August, 1766 , the Black Prince sailed, with full compliment of men and provisions, from Bristol , for the coast of Africa ; when she had run three days out of the harbour, with a smart wind, the greater part of the crew, spirited up to an act of Piracy by a ship-mate on board, to whose counsel they gave great attenti