The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

On Thursday Evening the second express came in with advice that the person found on board had been examined before two of his Majesty's justices, and that they had thought proper to dismiss him, the father of the two men supposed to be murdered having been present at the examination and consenting to his dismission; but upon a view of the examination, and consulting with such of the commissioners for trial of Piracies, &c. as were in town, his Excellency thought fit to issue his warrant for apprehending the person, and the express went off before sun-rise the next morning, and reached Barnstable about midnight. The justices upon further reflection had thought fit to take the person again into custody by a fresh warrant; and upon a second examination had committed him to Barnstable gaol in order to receive directions from the Governor; and the last evening about seven o'clock he was brought under guard to the province-house, and examined before the Governor, Admiral Montagu, the Lieutenant-Governor, the Secretary, and Commissioners as aforesaid, and about II o'clock was committed to gaol in order to his trial. The man's name is Ansell Nickerson and Sparrow Nickerson were cousins-german to him, the third, Elisha Newcomb, married their sister, the fourth William Kent, jun. was a boy of the same town about 13 years of age.