East Baton Rouge Parish Library

Pirates in their own words, eye-witness accounts of the 'Golden Age' of piracy,1690-1728, edited by E.T. Fox, M.A., PhD

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-407)

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

Pirates in their own words

bibliography

903358901

edited by E.T. Fox, M.A., PhD

eye-witness accounts of the 'Golden Age' of piracy,1690-1728

"Pirates in Their Own Words is a collection of original documents relating to the 'golden age' of piracy. Letters, testimonies, witness accounts and other primary source documents written by the pirates themselves, their victims, and the men who hunted them down"--Amazon.com

Pirates. Samuel Burgess ; William Phillips ; John Sparks ; David Evans ; Thomas Joy ; Richard Sievers ; James Kelly on two decades at sea ; Theophilus Turner ; John Brent ; Thomas Bagley ; Michael Hicks ; Richard Roper ; John Barrett ; The will of Joseph Jones ; A Matelotage agreement ; John Brown ; Robert Collover writes to a shipmate's widow ; A pirate reference ; Dear British Apollo ; Thomas Nichols and Francis Leslie surrender ; The Whydah surivors tell their stories ; David Herriot and Ignatius Pell on Blackbeard and Stede Bonnet ; Bartholomew Roberts writes ; Walter Kennedy's deposition ; Walter Kennedy's views on the pirate life ; James Bradshaw ; Richard Luntly ; The petition of John Massey and George Lowther ; William Ingram ; Alexander Thompson ; Philip Roche ; Thomas Lawrence Jones ; James Williams ; John Smith, alias John Gow ; Robert Reid -- Forced men. Philip Middleton ; Henry Watson ; John Ireland ; Richard Appleton and others ; Henry Hunt ; John Matthews ; Bridstock Weaver ; Henry Treehill ; Richard Moor ; Edward Evans ; William Whelks ; John Fillmore's narrative ; Nicholas Simmons -- Pirates' victims. Mutiny on the ship Adventure ; Israel Pippany and Peter Freeland ; George Weoley ; Edward North ; Thomas Grant ; Edward Green ; Captain Mackra's ship taken by Edward England ; Richard Lazenby, a prisoner of John Taylor ; Jacob du Bucquoy describes life in the company of John Taylor ; Andrew Kingston taken by Bartholomew Roberts ; Richard Hawkins' account of his capture by Francis Spriggs -- Trials. Trial of Aaron Gibbens and William Bournal ; Trial of Bridstock Weaver and William Ingram ; Trial of Nicholas Simmons and others -- Miscellaneous documents. Adam Baldridge ; The battle between the Dorrill and the Mocha ; A pirate's widow seeks her inheritance ; A letter to a pirate ; Prices of pirate supplies ; John Vickers and the arrival of the pirates at New Providence ; Pirates surrender to Captain Pearse ; Certificate of pardon ; Inventory of a pirate sloop ; The end of Blackbeard ; Captain Davis on the African coast ; Lists of ships taken by pirates ; The end of Bartholomew Roberts ; Inventory of goods in the possession of Pierce and Andrew Cullen