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of thirty guns, sails from New York with a crew of 155 men, commissioned as a privateer against the French, and pirates in the Indian Ocean......Sept. 6, 1696 [This was something of a private enterprise. Some noblemen of the English ministry invested £ 6,000 in the undertaking. Kidd and Robert Livingston of New York were to have one-fifth of the proceeds.] Richard Coote, Earl of Bellomont, appointed to succeed Governor Fletcher in 1695; commissioned, 1697, reaches New York......April 2, 1698 John Nanfan, a kinsman of Governor Bellomont, appointed lieutenant-governor......1698 Louis de Buade, Count de Frontenac, governor of Canada, dies, aged seventy-eight......Nov. 22, 1698 Remains of Jacob Leisler and Milborne honorably buried in the Dutch church, Garden Street......1699 Governor Bellomont dies at New York......March 5, 1701 Kidd is denounced as a pirate, and, returning to New York, and thence to Boston, is there arrested and ultimately sent to England, where