Records of the Colony or Jurisdiction of New Haven, from May 1653 to the Union (1858)

The printed records of New Haven Colony’s General Court and Court of Magistrates. Read in the archive.org full text for research/mcmillan/Fairchild_Raymond_Woodworth.md (October 2026).

Richard Raymond against Captain John Penny, Court of Magistrates at New Haven, 15 Feb 1659/60 (p. 327): “Richard Raymond, of Salem within ye colony of the Massachusetts, entred an action of molestation against Captaine John Penny, & declared concerning a vessell, (called the Black Eagle,) and goods, seized by the said captaine on the 7th of December last.” The court’s narrative (pp. 331-332): the ship Roebuck, “vnder the comand of one Captaine John Penny,” while riding in New Haven harbour “seized or surprized a vessell & goods belonging to one Richard Raymond, a planter or inhabitant of Salem.” At the court of the last of February 1659/60 (pp. 334 ff.) Raymond “declared that he had suffered much damage by ye captains act,” and told how “he was forced by his imploymt to have to doe wth a Duch vessell, being he could not get an English vessell to doe his businesse; being at Stamford, he hired a Duch vessell, whereof himself was to goe master,” and heard at the Manhattoes “that Captaine Penny was here to take Duch-men.” He then produced a bill of sale made before a New Netherland notary, by which he had bought “a vessell named ye Black Eagle” on 10 Oct 1659 “for the sum of fourteene hundred gilders, to be paid in seawan” (p. 337); the captain argued from Raymond’s own words that she was a Dutch vessel and the sale “delusive & not reall,” and claimed only “a Sweads comission.” The vessel had been seized “neare a place called Stamford point.” On “the first of the first moneth anno (59),” that is 1 Mar 1659/60, the magistrates ordered “that the whole matter be transmitted vnto the hono’ble court of admiralty in London, to be there tried & issued,” the goods to stay at New Haven under security (pp. 343-344).