A TRUE
ACCOUNT
OF THE
VOYAGE
OF THE
Nottingham-Galley of London,
John Dean Commander,
FROM THE
River Thames to New-England,

Near which Place she was cast away onBoon-Island, December 11, 1710. by theCaptain's Obstinacy, who endeavour'dto betray her to the French, or run herashore; with an Account of the Falsehoodsin the Captain's Narrative.

And a faithful Relation of the Extremities theCompany was reduc'd to for Twenty-fourDays on that desolate Rock, where theywere forc'd to eat one of their Companionswho died, but were at last wonderfullydeliver'd.

The whole attested upon Oath, by

Christopher Langman, Mate;
Nicholas Mellen, Boatswain; and
George White, Sailor in the said Ship.


LONDON: Printed for S. Popping at the Raven in Pater-noster-Row, 1711. (Price Six Pence.)

We having been Sufferers in this unfortunateVoyage, had reason to believe,from the Temper of our Captain, whotreated us barbarously both by Sea and Land,that he would misrepresent the Matter, aswe now find he has done in a late Pamphletby him publish'd, intituled, A Narrativeof the Sufferings, Preservation, and Deliveranceof Captain John Dean, andCompany, in the Nottingham Galley ofLondon, &c. London, Printed by R. Tooky,and Sold by S. Popping at the Raven inPater-noster-Row, and at the Printing Pressunder the Royal-Exchange.

Our Apprehensions of this made us refusethe Encouragement which was offeredus in New England, and resolve to comehome that we might have an Opportunityto lay before the World, and before thoseGentlemen and others who have lost theirEstates and Relations in this unhappy Voyage,the true Causes of our own and theirMisfortunes, and how they might, humanelyspeaking, have been easily avoided, had CaptainDean been either an honest or an ableCommander. This we think ourselves oblig'dto do in common Justice, and to prevent othersfrom suffering by him in the likemanner.

We cannot but in the first place take noticeof a notorious Falshood he asserts in hisPreface. That he might have had theAttestation of several of his Fellow Sufferersnow in Town to the Truth ofwhat he has wrote, since he very wellknows that Two of us did positively refuse itin publick Company, after reading a part ofit, and told him to his Face, that it wasnot true.

In the next place, as to what he says ofthe Encouragement his Narrative met within New England and North Britain, whereit appeared under much greater Disadvantagesas to the Particulars and Dress,We think fit to reply, That the Acceptanceit met with in New England was occasion'dby our being confined from appearing in publickduring our Sickness, and that he compell'dus to sign what our Illness made usuncapable to understand; but when it pleas'dGod that we recover'd our Health, and madeour Affidavits here subjoin'd before Mr. Penhallow,a Justice of Peace, and Member ofCouncil at Portsmouth in the Province ofNew Hampshire, New England, in thePresence of the said Dean, who had not theFace to deny it, his Character appear'd in atrue Light, and he was cover'd with Shameand Confusion.

The Captain has reason indeed to commendthe Charity of the Gentlemen of NewEngland, which is no more than theirdue, both from him and us, tho' we wereunhappily deprived of the chief Effects ofit by the Captain's Brother;