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Prowse, DW., A History of Newfoundland From The English, Colonial, and Foreign Records, 1895.
Belleville: Canadiana reprint series 33, Mika Studio, Belleville, Ontario. 1972.
Referring to Wadham of Poole and his involvement in the Nfld. trade.
To Mr. Samuel Merrett. Sept. 21, 1702 from Pool.
This serves to advice you that yesterday Mr. Thos. Wadham in the Hopewell of this
place arrived here in three weeks from Trinity Harbour; he brings the bad news that
about a week before he left 40 or 50 armed Frenchman came over by land from Placentia
to Sillicove (TC Note- now Winterton), surprised the inhabitants killing 3 or 4 and
took Mr. John Masters out of his bed rifled his house, and carried him and his goods
aboard a Jersey ship laden with fish and sailed northward with the ship and 1,000 qtls.
of fish but took no fish from the rocks; they much doubt their being gone to Bonavista
where is only Captain Weston. A French man of war hath been off St. John's all the
summer and hath taken seven ships in sight of that harbour. The Convoys were not
arrived when he came away.
This letter was not signed nor do I know the writer [TC Note].
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