Show UK wearn napp bolon blackboard pays penalty though they were the CRIMINALS average pirate usually bad two virtues at least bravery and loyalty to his associates bat capt edward teach blackboard was not troubled by an excess of the latter he was an accomplished hand at the double cross upon one occasion he decided to get rid of his crews and keep all the booty they bad accumulated for him self so he wrecked hla own vessel and one of his sloops and on the other he and his closest friends sailed away leaving their unfortunate fel lows marooned on a sandy island then be sailed to north carolina and with cool effrontery surrendered himself and 20 men to charles eden the governor of north carolina who secured a royal pardon for the pirate they became intimate friends and it deems that the governor and his secretary mr knight became partners in crime with the pirate soon after blackboards last marriage his fourteenth by the way he took to the sea again plundered half a dozen ships in the bermudas and returned to share the spoils with the governer gov erncr for several months blackboards ships lay in the river robbing every ship that entered and occasionally going ashore to rob the planters finally the situation became so un bearable that the colonists appealed to governor spottswood of virginia to rid the coast of the marauder spottswood acted promptly he sent a young lieutenant robert maynard with two sloops to do the job on november 21 1718 maynard als covered the pirate at the mouth of Oc racole inlet blackboard had been warned by secretary knight BO that all of his crew was on hand to help him defend the new schooner which he had As maenard s ships closed in blackboard sprang to the rail and shouted D n you for villains who arc you and from whence come you you may see from our colors we are no pirates retorted maenard send a boat aboard I 1 roared the pirate 1 I cannot spare my boat but I 1 will come aboard of you as I 1 can with my sloop replied the lieutenant seizing a bottle of whiskey black beard drank from it and shouted this toast damnation seize my soul if I 1 give you quarter or take any from youl maynard s reply to threat was 1 I neither ask for nor will I 1 gle you any quarter after a short and bloody fight at close range black beard boarded the lieutenants vessel and it was a hand to hand battle between 13 englishmen and 15 pirates the two commanders crossed swords and after wounding the pirate in no less than 25 places maynard pierced his throat with a lightning like thrust of his sword when maynard sailed into the chesapeake bay on his return to virginia the head of black board was swinging by his long hair from the bowsprit end one of the last of the pirates the eighteenth cen A tury was the heyday of bucca acers along the american co rob bang on the high seas was not en stamped out in colonial days and one of the problems which the new republic faced after the revola alon was the suppression of sporadic outbreaks of piracy As late as 1831 a pirate was hanged in new york city and his story Is an interesting one charles gabbs was his name and he was a farmer boy born in rhode Is land in 1794 lie ran away to sea and enlisted on the american war sloop harriet ue saw action in the fight with the british ship peacock and was one of the crew commanded by the heroic lawrence of dont give up the fame in the fight between the chesapeake and the shannon who was taken to england as a prisoner after gabbs release from the famous dartmoor prison he opened a shop called the tin pot which soon became a rendezvous tor abandoned women and dissolute fellows these outcasts soon helped the american drink up all his profits and he was compelled to go to sea again this time as a member of the crew of a south american privateer gibbs led a mu tiny seized the vessel and turned pi rate he tailed to cuba and began plundering ships near havana and slaughtering the crews then with booty totaling more than in gold he returned to new york and decided to retire to private life he next went to liver pool on a pleasure trip but fell in with a designing female one of the first harpley of trans atlantic passe neer travel and lost all of his money so in 1830 he took to piracy again he shipped as a beaman on the brie vineyard plying between philadel ehla and new orleans on the voyage in which the vine yard was carrying a cargo of cotton and in specie S again led a mutiny and S captain and the mate then the cre re act fire to the ship scuttled it took to their boats the v inn barrow island where aney money in the r gabbs planned to return i ww ul tatt haw t tr |