Sunday, June 07, 2020

Pirate References in Le Nouveau Mercure - April 1718

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p. 148 MILORDS ET MESSIEURS ... It is written from Carolina that 60 Pirates came to return to the Governor, and 200 others, with one of thei...

Pirate References in Le Nouveau Mercure - September 1718

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p. 129: " List of Spanish vessels taken, burn, sink, bottom, & of those who escape; Vessels caught." Letters from Bermuda indi...

Pirate Reference in Le Nouveau Mercure - April 1719

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p. 206-207: In Cadiz on April 12. We got advice from Vigo, that the two [frigates] crossing along from the Galician [NW Iberian Peninsula] c...

La Gazette Pirate References 1723-4

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p. 94: From London on 11 February 1723. ... Letters from the City of Yorck in Virginia state that the Weymouth English Warship had...
Friday, February 28, 2020

Private Proprietary Pirates - Early Capitalism in America, 1700

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A letter from Edward Randolph depicts the arrogance of aristocratic oligarchs known as the Lords Proprietors in England and the negligenc...
Monday, February 17, 2020

Capture of Le Victorieux or Victory by pirate Jeremiah Cocklyn!

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From the French deposition of the captain of the ship that was chased, captured, and taken by pirates Jeremiah Cocklyn, Olivier LeVassuer,...
Monday, February 10, 2020

Bonnet's Revenge.. Maybe?

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From Naval Office Shipping Lists for Barbados, 1678-1819 pt1, CO 33-13--17 - Barbados, 1678-1733 This record for Godfrey Malbone ...
Monday, December 16, 2019

Anti-Slavery Politics in the Legend of "Goody" Hallett, "Witch of Wellfleet!"

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The legend of “Maria” Hallet appears to have first begun in 1934 with a reprise in 1937 from Josef Berger, who wrote the 1930's cl...