At eleven in the forenoon, the whole body of people embarked, to the number of eighty-one souls, fifty-nine on board the vessel, on board the cutter twelve, and in the barge ten.  At noon got under sail, the wind at N.W. by W. The captain, surgeon, and Mr H——­n, being on the shore side, we gave them three cheers, which they returned.  Coming out of Wager’s Bay, split the foresail, and very narrowly escaped the rocks; with the assistance of the barge and our own oars, tow’d her clear, and bore away into a large sandy bay, on the south side of the lagoon, which we called by the name of the Speedwell Bay.  At four in the afternoon, anchored in ten fathom fine sand, the barge and cutter went ashore, there not being room on board the boat to lodge the people.

Wednesday the 14th, fresh gales at S.W. and W., with rain.  At three this afternoon, being fair weather, weigh’d, and came to sail to take a cruize up the lagoon, to try the vessel, it being smooth water she work’d very well; after three or four trips returned, and anchor’d where we came from.

“These are to certify the right honourable the lords commissioners for executing the office of lord high admiral of Great Britain, That we, whose names are under-mentioned, do beg leave to acquaint your lordships that Captain David Cheap, our late commander in his majesty’s ship Wager, having publicly declared, that he will never go off this spot, at his own request desires to be left behind; but Captain Pemberton, of his majesty’s land forces, having confined him a prisoner for the death of Mr Henry Cozens, midshipman, with Lieutenant Hamilton, for breaking his confinement, did insist on delivering them up on the beach to the charge of Lieutenant Beans, but he, with his officers and people, consulting the ill consequences that might attend carrying two prisoners off in so small a vessel, and for so long and tedious a passage as we are likely to have, and that they might have opportunities of acting such things in secret as may prove destructive to the whole body; and also in regard to the chief article of life, as the greatest part of the people must be obliged at every place we stop, to go on shore in search of provisions, and there being now no less than eighty-one souls in this small vessel, which we hope to be delivered in, we therefore, to prevent any difficulties to be added to the unforeseen we have to encounter with, think proper to agree, and in order to prevent murder, to comply with Captain David Cheap’s request:  The surgeon also begs leave to be left with him.  Dated on board the Speedwell schooner, in Cheap’s Bay, this 14th day of October, 1741.

Robert Beans, lieutenant
Thomas Clark, master
John King, boatswain
John Bulkeley, gunner
John Cummins, master
Robert Elliot, surgeon’s mate
John Jones, master’s mate
John Snow, ditto
Captain Pemberton, of his majesty’s land forces
Vincent Oakley, surgeon of ditto.”