LeMoyne, Bernard

Bernard LeMoyne was the captain of the privateer frigate the La Toison d’Or [Golden Fleece] operating in the Caribbean as early as 1674.  Around 1678, he brought into Boston harbor several Dutch prizes worth well over one hundred thousand pounds.  Colonial administrator Edward Randolph later called LeMoyne “a great undertaker for pirates and promoter of irregular trade.  ”Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, History of the City of New York in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. 2 (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1909), 194.  “A Continuation of a List of Ships belonging to English Merchants, and taken by French Privateers, touching which, Application hath been made to the Lords of the Committee for Trade,” State Tracts: Being a Collection of Several Treaties Relating to the Government (London, 1693), 134.