The articles that follow is an attempt to identify the owners of 19 bottle-seal fragments from English glass wine bottles and to provide some insight into the practice of bottle-sealing.

An extract from Letter to Board of Trade, by Colonel J. Gibson, dated June 28, 1697.

Counsel for Cecil Calvert (Second Baron Baltimore), in his case concerning the Province of Avalon, dating from December 23, 1651.

Deposition of Edward Davis, taken on September 23, 1695, and dealing with France, war, fortifications, and ordance.

Deposition of Richard Hartnoll et al., dated September 15, 1707, and dealing with the Pool Plantation, planters, names, France, and war.

Deposition of Thomas Cleasby, taken on March 23, 1708, and dealing with the Pool Plantation, planters, France, war, cod, fisheries, houses, and stages.

Overview of the French attack on Ferryland, which occurred in the winter of 1696 as a part of the war between France and England.