The voyage of the ship Molly under the command of Captain Joseph Rodman to Barbados with instructions to “speak with no Vessel at Sea unless in Distress.” Rodman is then ordered to return to Newport with a cargo of rum and sugar.

Photograph of the headstone of Hector Butcher. The original headstone is in God’s Little Acre in the Newport Common Burying Ground. He died on August 15, 1720 at 37 years old.

The headstone reads: “Here lyeth Hector Butcher Negro, late Servant to Ms Ann Butcher of Barbadoes, aged 37 years & dyed August ye [the] 15th: 1720.”