Peter Roderigo

[1] On his departure in 1674 he left Rhoades, Cornelius Andreson, and Peter Roderigo with privateering commissions to keep out the French and prevent the English from making inroads into New Holland.

[4] English sailors and merchants complained to local officials, who commissioned privateer and Indian fighter Samuel Mosely to sail against the Dutch.

[2] Roderigo and his fleet tried to fight Mosely’s ships but Manning immediately switched sides to aid the English; outgunned severely, the Dutch surrendered.

Most of the Dutch were convicted of piracy at trial in 1675 but all were eventually either acquitted, pardoned, or sentenced to hang but commuted to banishment instead.

[4] Roderigo would later rejoin the English, fighting alongside Mosely’s fellow Indian fighter Joshua Scottow near Scarborough, Maine.