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This may be old news to some of you, but I just ran across it while searching for booty.
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->He was a boy, no more than 11, when pirates captured the ship he and his mother were sailing on in the Caribbean. As he watched the pirates haul off the ship's cargo of sugar and tobacco, John King made a decision: He would leave his mother and join the pirate crew, led by Captain Sam Bellamy.
Now, 290 years later, King's remains -- his fibula, silk stocking, and shoe -- have been identified among the wreck of Bellamy's ship, the Whydah, 1,500 feet off the coast of Wellfleet. While teenage pirates were common in the 18th century, King is considered to be the youngest ever identified.
Researchers excavating the Whydah used 18th century Caribbean court records and modern forensics to make the determination.
Their find opened a window onto the strange and brief life of a young boy swept up in a lost world of ocean piracy.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The rest of the story is here:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/06/02/remains_are_identified_as_a_boy_pirate/
This may be old news to some of you, but I just ran across it while searching for booty.
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->He was a boy, no more than 11, when pirates captured the ship he and his mother were sailing on in the Caribbean. As he watched the pirates haul off the ship's cargo of sugar and tobacco, John King made a decision: He would leave his mother and join the pirate crew, led by Captain Sam Bellamy.
Now, 290 years later, King's remains -- his fibula, silk stocking, and shoe -- have been identified among the wreck of Bellamy's ship, the Whydah, 1,500 feet off the coast of Wellfleet. While teenage pirates were common in the 18th century, King is considered to be the youngest ever identified.
Researchers excavating the Whydah used 18th century Caribbean court records and modern forensics to make the determination.
Their find opened a window onto the strange and brief life of a young boy swept up in a lost world of ocean piracy.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The rest of the story is here:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/06/02/remains_are_identified_as_a_boy_pirate/
" border="0" alt="me.gif" /> I guess that had to be both the youngest and shortest pirate career ever. And since his pirate career started in 1716, he was right at the tail end of the Golden Age of Piracy and may have wound up being hunted down and killed anyway had he remained a pirate.
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" border="0" alt="mybad.gif" /> it's fixed now.