Articles of High Crimes and Misdemeanors charged upon the Governors in the severall Proprieties on the continent of America and Islands adjacent
North Carolina. They have no settled Government among them, about 4 yeares agoe, the swift Frigat being drove out of Virginia by storm and coming a shore upon the sands in that Province, the Inhabitants Robb'd her and fired great Guns into her and disabled her from getting off, the chief Offender was banished, only tis a place which receives Pirates, Runaways, and Illegal Traders.