Nathaniel Grubing

[1] Grubing was English and Jamaica-born but sailed for the French after the outbreak of King William's War, as did many other English sailors – Jacobites and Catholics, debtors, and privateers dissatisfied with England's discouragement of privateering.

[2] Jamaica's Governor Beeston wrote, “Among the chief of these rogues was one Grubbin, who was born here of English parents, and who knowing every part of the Island had done much mischief by landing in the night, robbing lone settlements, and going away again before notice could be given to any force to oppose him.”[2] In early 1692 Grubing raided Spanish River in Jamaica.

[3] Local authorities commissioned two armed sloops to chase Grubing and other French privateers and offered a reward for his capture.

[2] Finally in January 1697 an Englishman named Captain Moses apprehended several Frenchmen, Grubing among them.

[5] Beeston was not swayed: “that shall not hinder me from causing Grubbin to suffer whatever the law may condemn him in, nor do I think that Mons.