Philip Ashton
Remembered by James Castaway · 1725 account
A Marblehead fisherman told this to his minister so the voice would not vanish. The Fact body is his I: Friday, 15 June 1722, the schooner Milton, Port-Rossaway, Ned Low. James Castaway kept the pages. He did not walk that shore. Philip does not live on First Deck.
As written
UPON Friday, June 15th. 1722. After I had been out for some time in the Schooner Milton, upon the Fishing grounds, off Cape Sable Shoar, among others, I came to Sail in Company with Nicholas Merritt, in a Shallop, and stood in for Port-Rossaway, designing to Harbour there, till the Sabbath was over; where we Arrived about Four of the Clock in the Afternoon. When we came into the Harbour, where several of our Fishing Vessels had arrived before us, we spy'd among them a Brigantine, which we supposed to have been an Inward bound Vessel, from the West Indies, and had no apprehensions of any Danger from her; but by that time we had been at Anchor two or three Hours, a Boat from the Brigantine, with Four hands, came along side of us, and the Men Jumpt in upon our Deck, without our suspecting any thing but that they were Friends, come on board to visit, or inquire what News; till they drew their Cutlashes and Pistols from under their Clothes, and Cock'd the one and Brandish'd the other, and began to Curse & Swear at us, and demanded a Surrender of our Selves and Vessel to them.
Unit 01, Friday Harbor. Orthography lightly modernized; substance 1725.
Not island folk. Not a 9S1E resident. Roatán is not this island. Never nickname James Castaway in running prose.