Colony of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Essex ss

At a Court erected to try & condemn all Vessels that shall be found infesting the Sea Coast of America, & brought in to either of the Counties of Suffolk, Middlesex, or Essex, holden at Salem in the said County of Essex, by the Honourable Timothy Pickering junr Esquire, Judge of said Court, on Thursday the sixteenth Day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy six

Jonathan Glover of Marblehead in said County of Essex Merchant Proponent in a Libel against a Schooner called the Industry about twenty five Tons Burthen, commanded by Francis Butler ー The said Francis Butler Claimant. The Time & Place of Trial having been duely notified. After a full Hearing of the said Proponant and the said Claimant, the Bill aforesaid of the said Jonathan & the Claim of the said Francis were committed to a Jury duely returned impannelled & sworn, Which Jury upon their Oath said "that the said Schooner Industry with whatever she had on board upon her Return from New Providence, designed to go into Boston in the County of Suffolk in New England & was taken by Hugh Hill in the Schooner Dove & his People & carried into Salem in the County of Essex."²

And thereupon, It was by the said Timothy Pickering, Judge as aforesaid, considered and decreed that the said Schooner Industry with her Cargo & appurtenances be restored to the said Francis Butler the Claimant for the Use of himself and the other Owners thereof

as appears from the record