Currituck County NcArchives Court.....Clarke, Peleg  Et Al June 20, 1820
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Source: Edenton Gazette   June 26, 1820
Written: June 20, 1820
Recorded: June 26, 1820

                       PIRACY AND MURDER
                    DEPOSITION OF PELEG CLARKE

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
CURRITUCK COUNTY

Examination of PELEG CLARKE, taken this day before us, as follows. -- After
being duly sworn,deposeth and saith, that in November, 1819, he shipped on 
board the Brig "General Rondeau"; a Buenos Aires Privateer, as a hand before 
the mast, under DANIEL MILES, Captain, and cruised up the Straits five months, 
and captured five prizes, when the crew mutinied and set the Captain and the 
rest of the Officers on shore off Puerto Rico, except the second Lieutenant 
named MACK SWANEY, whom they murdered. Then a MR. ROBINSON, who had acted as 
Gunner, undertook to navigate the vessel under the direction of THOMAS _____, 
the United States _____ in with an English shi;p and put three men on board of 
her; after that, when off Wilmington, N. C., they put about 30 men on board a 
Boston schooner, and about 30 more went on shore, all of whom carried whatever 
property they pleased or could, with convenience carry off, leaving but seven 
on board the privateer, who proceded to the north; when off Currituck Beach, 
about six miles to the soouthward of Currituck Inlet, on the 13th of June, 
they shot a cannon ball through the bottom of the vessel, and went on shore in 
the boat with their money and whatever else they can carry. The deponent 
further states that it was a doubt whether the Officers in the boat ever got 
ashore or not.
                                                PELEG CLARKE 
Sworn to in due form of law before us this 20th day of June, 1820
C. ETHERIDE, J.P.
S. SALYEAR, J. P.
E. BALL, J. P.
   The above PELEG CLARKE and ANDREW SMITH of the above crew, are now confined 
in Currituck Jail.
                                        C. ETHERIDGE, JR.
[Nine of the crew of the "Gen. Rondeau" were in Georgetown, S. C. about the 
8th of the month, six of whom were arrested and committed, the other three
proceded to Charleston, previous to suspicion resting upon them.}

Additional Comments:
CAPT. DANIEL MILES, Lt. MACK SWANEY, MR. ROBINSON,C. ETHERIDGE; S. SALYEAR; E. 
BALL

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