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piratealyssa

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I've been doing a bit of writing (okay, QUITE a bit of writing) and I'm lacking information on the King's Ransom that a governor or mayor or something extended to pirates around the Carolinas that was available from, I think, June to September of either 1720 or 1721.

I know my numbers are probably off because it's just my passing remembrance of them, but any help in correcting me and giving me any more information would be appreciated forever. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bow.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":bow" border="0" alt="bow.gif" />

If you know of any other collectively offered pardons like that could you tell me about them? I'm having a hard time finding any specific information. The internet is just so hard to sift through.

A round for anyone with info! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
Piratealyssa,
Welcome to the site! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
I'm sure you'll get a lot of help from the sea dogs that skulk around these waters!

I did a couple of searches with "Pirate amnesty" and Governor Charles Eden and came up with;

<a href="http://www.ocracoke-nc.com/blackbeard/tales/blcknc07.htm" target="_blank">http://www.ocracoke-nc.com/blackbeard/tales/blcknc07.htm</a>

<a href="http://www.blackbeard.com/beard_facts.htm?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blackbeard.com%2Fbeard_facts.htm" target="_blank">http://www.blackbeard.com/beard_facts.htm?...beard_facts.htm</a>

<a href="http://pages.prodigy.net/rodney.broome/piratewalk41pir.htm" target="_blank">http://pages.prodigy.net/rodney.broome/piratewalk41pir.htm</a>

<a href="http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/Sections/HS/bath/blackbeard.htm" target="_blank">http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/Sections/HS/.../blackbeard.htm</a>

I'll have to check my copy of <u>Under the Black Flag</u> by David Cordingly and see if it has any information that you might find helpful. Good luck!

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Thanks!

Under the Black Flag is, I think, where I first read about it but I had it on loan, and had to return it. If I weren't so lazy I would go out and buy it.

Thanks so much for your help! Here's your round. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
Aye,welcome aboard piratealyssa,been mean'n ter buy Under the Black Flag meselfe Sir Chris,look ter be some fine read'n <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bookish.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":mm" border="0" alt="bookish.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
PirateAlyssa, thanks for the round, <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" /> I'll get the next one! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/beer2.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":beer" border="0" alt="beer2.gif" />

Wait a minute, <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" /> this is Pirates Ahoy right? I would have bet my last doubloon that Catalina the Pirate would have been here by now with a treasure trove of info by now. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bookish.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":mm" border="0" alt="bookish.gif" /> She must be really busy with real life, but stick around, I know she'll be by soon and come up with some information.

Skull, I think you'll like <u>Under the Black Flag</u> it talks a lot about guys like you... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/keith.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":keith" border="0" alt="keith.gif" />

UTBF did yield up some info that I think you'll find helpful in chapter 11, Hunting Down the Pirates on page 205;

"The granting of pardons to pirates on the loose was one of the measures designed to curb piracy. On September 5, 1717, King George I issued a royal proclamation which declared that any pirates who surrendered themselves to the authorities within a limited time "should have His most gracious Pardon" <i>(it then refers to note 24 on page 271 that provides an example of a form of the pardon issued by Governor Bennett of Bermuda, mmm...Ber-mu-da!)</i> The proclamation was sent out to the governors in the West Indies and the American colonies, who then had the responsibility of contacting the pirates. The reactions to the proclamation were encouraging. Governor Bennett of Bermuda dispatched a sloop to the pirates in Providence and the news was accepted "with great joy" by the three hundred pirates gathered there. Most agreed that they would surrender themselves to the Governor. Captain Jennings and seven other pirates duly arrived in Bermuda and gave themselves up ..."

The book goes on about how the pardon apparently had a strong effect in the Bahamas, but little effect elsewhere, (Blackbeard, and Skull & Catalina & others, comes to mind at this point. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":facepalm" border="0" alt="mybad.gif" /> ) it also seems a little ironic to me that in the same year, 1717, another royal proclamation offered bounties for captured pirates. (Talk about the carrot and the stick! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/piratesing.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":shock" border="0" alt="piratesing.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whippa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":whipa" border="0" alt="whippa.gif" /> )

I'm hoping that some of the guys who've read <u>The Buccaneers in America</u>
by Exquemelin, or Esquemeling will pop in, because that is a primary source and may have more information you might find useful. Be patient, others will find this thread. (including Hermione. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/razz.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":razz" border="0" alt="razz.gif" />)
 
Pardon! We don't need no steenkin' pardon! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/razz.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":razz" border="0" alt="razz.gif" />

<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

Yes, I have been immensely busy and took a couple of days to recharge my batteries over at a friend's house this weekend. I must confess, I DID do some work on my PotC Animists Quest fix, but otherwise, stayed away from the computer and the internet.

MY copy of UTBF has been on loan to a friend, so I don't have it here for reference, so thanks for the details, SirChristopher!

I'll do a little drilling down on Google and see what I can find on this. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_eek.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":shock:" border="0" alt="icon_eek.gif" /> I'll be back! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/boom.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":boom" border="0" alt="boom.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="icon_wink.gif" />
 
Well, I've found that Blackbeard presumably took this particular pardon and boasted that he could live in Bath and be invited into any home there for dinner - however he did not actually obey his pardon to the letter, and was hiding out in Ocracoke North Carolina when he was killed by Lieutenant Robert Maynard, with an expedition of British sailors from the neighboring colony of Virginia.

It looks like Governor Woodes Rogers carried out a lot of pardons from his base in the Bahamas, starting in 1718.

Here's a snippet:<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->John Auger
1718. English. Auger was one of those pardoned by Governor Woodes Rogers, when Rogers arrived at New Providence Island in the Bahamas in July, 1718. Two days after leaving New Providence Island, Auger joined in a mutiny led by Phineas Bunce. The mutineers forced William Greenway (one of those pardoned) to join them. Henry White (also pardoned) as well as several others were stripped naked and marooned on Green Cay Island. Auger would anchor off Green Cay and at various times would retrieve the marooned and beat them. The marooned were rescued after seven weeks. Auger and crew leaving Green Cay would encounter Spanish coast guards off Long Island. The coast guard captured the pirates ships. Auger escaped to the island only to be captured in December by Benjamin Hornigold. Auger was taken to New Providence Island where he was hanged.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->from this website - <a href="http://www.kipar.org/piratical-resources/pirate-fame.html" target="_blank">http://www.kipar.org/piratical-resources/pirate-fame.html</a> - some good info there!

Rogers also seems to have pardoned a LOT of pirates (including Anne Bonney) who did not obey the pardon and continued piracy.

I think this had a lot to do with those pardoned not having another way to make a decent living - OR perhaps missed the "adventure" of plunder on the seas. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="icon_wink.gif" />

Rogers, by the way, was an English privateer - to the Spanish, a PIRATE. Here's a good article about Woodes Rogers: <a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~artrogers/Woodes.htm" target="_blank">http://home.earthlink.net/~artrogers/Woodes.htm</a>

I think that's about all I can do for now... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bookish.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":mm" border="0" alt="bookish.gif" /> Hope this helps! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
Thanks, guys!

Wow, so helpful. Cheers for all o' ye!

This is so exciting. I had no idea there were entire pirate communities. I really must come around more often.

Defoe's book is also amazing. I use it as a primary source. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />
 
Cheers, there ol' piratealyssa! oh and did i say ol'? well im sure you are actually young and in your prime!!! I am CJS, the Psychedelic Pyrate! I would just like to drop by in this great thread about a great book...and would like to ask... when you get it published and all...you think maybe I could get a copy? I'd love to read a good book, especially if it's written by a PA! pyrate!!! (havent read a good book in a LONG TIME lol)

Well again, welcome, and have a Super-Sized Rum Mug (with rum in it of course!) from all of us! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
CJS, you be really too kind. Of course you may.

(But that depends on many extrapolating circumstances, into which I shall not delve presently for fear of losing my optimism.)

Thanks so much, guys, sorry I haven't been here in the last two or so weeks to respond. Catalina, you have been most helpful. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />
 
Happy I could help. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

Keep in touch, let us know how the project is coming along! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":yes" border="0" alt="yes.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
Got another quick question---

I'm not finding anything conclusive from my usual sources, and Under the Black Flag doesn't have what I'm looking for.

What do you guys know about Fort Charles, Jamaica, from the years 1700-1730? Under the Black Flag mentions it once or twice and not in great detail. I don't know as much as I would like, and I'm reading a History of the Royal Navy that I hope will give me at least a bit more information. I figured since you guys were so helpful before you might be willing to point me in the right direction here? Thanks. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />
 
Pirate Alyssa,
Not sure how much help I can be on this one; I was hanging around Jamaica with little Henry Morgan circa 1659 - 1661, when Thomas Windsor was governor and a little before the place was built, (maybe, seems to be some discrepency regarding this on the sites I was looking at, maybe too much time in the Giddy House... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" /> ) so the period you're asking about is a little after my time, but if you don't ask the dangdest questions... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bow.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":bow" border="0" alt="bow.gif" />

This looks pretty cool from the Jamaican National Heritage Trust,
<a href="http://www.jnht.com/forts/charles.html" target="_blank">http://www.jnht.com/forts/charles.html</a>
I bet someone at JNHT's contact page would have some material and may be able to recommend some books,
<a href="http://www.jnht.com/contactus.html" target="_blank">http://www.jnht.com/contactus.html</a>
here's the link to the home page as well,
<a href="http://www.jnht.com/" target="_blank">http://www.jnht.com/</a>

The books I have on hand don't have anything specific, but this should get you started and I'm sure that other pirates we be along soon .... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
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