Brethren of the Coast: Golden Age Pirates, Buccaneers, Female Freebooters & Pirate Hunters, 1650–1730 - 240 Biographical Entries | Searchable PDF

Discover 240 Lives from the Golden Age of Piracy (1650–1730)

Published by Fairbairn’s Crest, Brethren of the Coast: A Rogues’ Gallery of Golden Age Pirates, Buccaneers, Female Freebooters, and Pirate Hunters (1650–1730) brings together 240 biographical entries reconstructing the real men and women who sailed, raided, traded, and patrolled the early modern seas. Rather than repeating maritime folklore, these accounts follow documented lives through shipboard mutinies, elected commands, shifting colonial commissions, grueling transoceanic voyages, maroonings, naval engagements, and Vice-Admiralty courtroom trials.

Spanning eighty turbulent years from the cattle-smoking boucans of Tortuga and the privateering wharves of Port Royal to the jungle portages of Darién, the Pacific South Sea, the colonial ports of Boston, Newport, Williamsburg, and Charles Town, the pirate strongholds of Nassau and Madagascar, and the fortress-coasts of Malabar, this collection captures every side of the maritime frontier. Readers encounter figures such as surgeon-chronicler Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin arriving at Tortuga as an indentured servant, Scottish sailing master Alexander Selkirk enduring four solitary years on Juan Fernández before Woodes Rogers rescued him, Anne Bonny and Mary Read standing armed on John Rackham’s deck off Jamaica, East India Company Captain James Macrae defending the Cassandra against Edward England and John Taylor, and Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard boarding Edward “Blackbeard” Teach’s sloop in Ocracoke Inlet.

What the Biographies Reveal

• Captains, Quartermasters & Crewmen: Origins, vessels served aboard or commanded, shipboard articles, prizes taken, crew factions, and recorded fates.
• Buccaneers, Flibustiers & Pirate Round Mariners: Multinational English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, French, Dutch, Spanish, Maratha, and African seafarers across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.
• Female Freebooters & Maritime Defendants: Verified accounts of Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Breton flibustière Anne Dieu-le-Veut, and colonial Virginia piracy defendants Mary Critchett and Martha Farley.
• Pirate Hunters, Governors & Judges: Naval officers, colonial executives, and jurists who pursued freebooters and presided over Old Bailey, Edinburgh, Boston, Williamsburg, Charles Town, and Spanish Town trials.
• Evidence-Grounded Detail: Entry length varies naturally with the surviving historical record, ranging from concise archival sketches of trial co-defendants and forced mariners to multi-paragraph narrative portraits of prominent commanders.

What’s Included in Your Download

• 240 Alphabetical Biographical Entries arranged from James Adair to Richard Worley, with inline dates, concise role and location headers, and quiet end-of-entry source citations.
• 121-Page Searchable PDF Edition typeset for comfortable screen reading, accompanied by a narrative historical introduction (The Maritime Frontier, 1650–1730) and a Sources & Further Reading bibliography.
• Three Supporting Back-of-Book Indexes to help navigate the biographies: an Index of Names & Aliases (cross-referencing nicknames and 17th- and 18th-century spelling variants), an Index of Places, and an Index of Ships, Squadrons, Forts & Courts.

How to Use This Edition for Reading & Research

Read straight through the alphabetical chapters or press Ctrl+F (Cmd+F on Mac) to search instantly across all 121 pages for a surname, variant spelling, vessel, port, or courtroom. Each entry ends with specific citations to early sea journals, state papers, or trial proceedings, giving family historians, maritime researchers, and history readers clear routes for deeper archival research.

What You Are Purchasing

You are purchasing the compiled 121-page searchable PDF edition of Brethren of the Coast (1650–1730) published by Fairbairn’s Crest. Original source books are not included. Digital download only. No physical book will be shipped. Because 17th- and 18th-century maritime records frequently contain aliases and phonetic spellings, researchers pursuing genealogical connections should confirm conclusions against original parish and admiralty records.

People Featured in This Biographical Collection

James Adair (fl. 1720–1722, Indian Ocean pirate mariner, Ranter Bay), Jurriaen Aernouts (fl. 1673–1674, var. Jurriaen Aernoutsz, Dutch privateer captain, Curaçao), Thomas Allen (d. 1727, Pirate crewman, Ocracoke Inlet), Robert Allison (fl. 1679–1699, var. Capt. Alleston, Buccaneer captain, Port Royal), Cornelius Andreson (fl. 1674–1675, var. Cornelius Andersen, Dutch privateer officer, Pentagoet), Michiel Andrieszoon (fl. 1683–1686, “Capitaine Michel”, Dutch zee-roover, Petit-Goâve), Kanhoji Angria (c. 1669–1729, var. Conajee Angria, Maratha Admiral, Vijaydurg & Kolaba), Thomas Anstis (fl. 1718–1723, Pirate captain, New Providence), John Rose Archer (fl. 1718–1724, Pirate quartermaster, Boston), Valentine Ashplant (c. 1690–1722, Pirate officer, Cape Coast Castle), Leigh Ashworth (fl. 1715–1718, var. Legs Ashworth, Privateer & pirate captain, Port Royal), John Augur (d. December 1718, var. John Auger, Pirate captain, Nassau), Adam Baldridge (fl. 1685–1699, Pirate trader & factor, St. Mary’s Island), John Baptis (fl. 1723–1724, var. Jean Baptiste, Forced French mariner, Martinique), Richard Barlicorn (fl. 1696–1701, var. Richard Barleycorn, Surgeon’s apprentice, London), Jonathan Barnet (fl. 1715–1721, var. Capt. Barnett, Pirate-hunter captain, Port Royal), Samuel Bellamy (d. April 1717, “Black Sam”, Pirate captain, Cape Cod), John Benbow (c. 1681–1708, East India Company mate, Madagascar), Richard Bobbington (fl. 1687–c. 1697, var. Philip Babington, Pirate Round captain, Red Sea), Stede Bonnet (1688–1718, “The Gentleman Pirate”, Major & pirate captain, Barbados & Charles Town), Anne Bonny (fl. 1719–1720, var. Anne Bonney, Female freebooter, Nassau & Jamaica), Charles Boone (fl. 1715–1722, Governor of Bombay, Bombay), George Booth (fl. 1696–1701, Pirate Round captain, St. Mary’s Island), John Bowen (fl. 1699–1704, var. Captain Boon, Pirate Round captain, Madagascar), Robert Bradinham (fl. 1696–1701, var. Bradenham, Ship’s surgeon, London), Joseph Bradish (1672–1700, Mutineer & pirate captain, Cambridge, Massachusetts), Joseph Bradley (fl. 1665–1671, var. Brodely, Buccaneer captain, Port Royal), Ellis Brand (fl. 1716–1721, Royal Navy Post-Captain, James River, Virginia), Rock Brasiliano (fl. 1654–1671, var. Roche Brasiliano, Dutch buccaneer captain, Port Royal), Nicolas Brigaut (fl. 1680–1686, var. Nicolas Brigot, French flibustier captain, Petit-Goâve), Hans Burgen (fl. 1720–1722, Danish pirate settler, Ranter Bay), Samuel Burgess (fl. 1690–c. 1716, var. Daniel Burgis, Pirate captain & trader, New York & Madagascar), Caesar (fl. 1718–1719, Blackbeard’s crewman, Ocracoke Inlet), James Carnegie (fl. 1716, var. James Carnique, Pirate captain, Port Royal), Robert Carter (1663–1732, “King Carter”, Acting Governor of Virginia, Williamsburg), Edward Cheeseman (fl. 1723–1724, var. Edward Cheesman, Forced ship’s carpenter, Newfoundland), Dirk Chivers (fl. 1694–1700, Dutch Pirate Round captain, Madagascar), Nicholas Churchill (fl. 1696–1701, Pirate seaman, Dorset & Old Bailey), Thomas Cocklyn (fl. 1717–1719, Pirate captain, New Providence & Sierra Leone), Samuel Cole (c. 1689–1726, Pirate quartermaster, Bristol & Boston), Edward Coleman (d. 1727, Pirate crewman, Ocracoke Inlet), Edward Collier (fl. 1668–1671, var. Collyer, Buccaneer vice-admiral, Port Royal), Christopher Condent (fl. 1718–1721, Pirate captain, Plymouth & Sainte-Marie), George Condick (b. c. 1706, fl. 1726, Ship’s cook, Plymouth & Boston), Edmund Cook (fl. 1673–1681, var. Edmond Cook, South Sea buccaneer captain, Darién), John Cook (fl. 1682–1684, var. John Cooke, South Sea rover captain, St. Kitts), Edward Cooke (fl. 1702–1712, Privateer second captain, Bristol), Richard Coote (1636–1701, 1st Earl of Bellomont, Colonial Governor, New York & Boston), John Cornelius (fl. 1700–1703, Pirate captain, Madagascar), Stephen Courtney (fl. 1708–1711, Privateer captain, Bristol), William Ambrosia Cowley (fl. 1683–1686, Buccaneer navigator, Galápagos), John Coxon (fl. 1676–1688, var. Coxen, Buccaneer commander, Port Royal), Mary Critchett (d. August 1729, var. Mary Crickett, Female pirate defendant, Williamsburg, Virginia), Robert Culliford (fl. 1690–1702, Pirate Round captain, Madagascar), Charles François D’Angennes (1648–1691, Marquis de Maintenon, French naval commander, West Indies), Jean D’Estrées (1624–1707, Comte d’Estrées, Vice-Admiral of France, Caribbean), Bertrand D’Ogeron de La Bouëre (1613–1676, French Governor of Tortuga, Tortuga), William Dampier (1651–1715, Buccaneer navigator & author, Somerset & South Sea), Edward Davis (fl. 1680–1702, var. Edward Davies, South Sea buccaneer admiral, Panama Bay), Howell Davis (fl. 1718–1719, Welsh pirate captain, Milford Haven & Príncipe), John Davis (fl. 1665–1668, Jamaican buccaneer admiral, Port Royal), Thomas Davis (b. c. 1695, fl. 1717, Forced Welsh shipwright, Cape Cod), Pierre-Paul Tarin De Cussy (d. 1691, French Governor of Saint-Domingue, Tortuga), Laurens Cornelis Boudewijn De Graaf (c. 1653–1704, “Lorencillo”, Dutch flibustier commander, Petit-Goâve), Michel De Grammont (c. 1645–1686, Chevalier de Grammont, French flibustier commander, Saint-Domingue), Jacques Nepveu De Pouançay (d. 1682, Sieur de Pouançay, Governor of Saint-Domingue, Petit-Goâve), Don Alonso Del Campo y Espinosa (fl. 1669, Spanish Admiral, Maracaibo), Henry Dennis (fl. 1718–1722, Pirate officer, Bideford & Cape Coast Castle), Jean-Bernard Louis Desjean (1645–1707, Baron de Pointis, French squadron commander, Cartagena), Anne Dieu-le-Veut (1661–1710, var. Marie-Anne, Breton flibustière, Tortuga), Nicholas Dove (b. c. 1687, fl. 1701–1717, Castaway & trader, Madagascar), Thomas Dover (1660–1742, Physician & privateer captain, Bristol), Edward Doyley (1617–1675, var. D’Oyley, Governor of Jamaica, Jamaica), Thomas Drummond (fl. 1698–1715, Scottish merchant captain, Madagascar), Robert Drury (1687–c. 1743, Castaway & memoirist, London & Madagascar), Jean-Baptiste Ducasse (1646–1715, var. Jean du Casse, Governor of Saint-Domingue, Petit-Goâve), John Eaton (fl. 1683–1686, South Sea rover captain, London & Pacific), Charles Eden (1673–1722, Governor of North Carolina, Bath Town), Edward England (c. 1685–c. 1721, Pirate captain, Nassau & Madagascar), Adolph Esmit (fl. 1679–1684, var. Adolphe Esmit, Governor of St. Thomas, Charlotte Amalie), John Evans (d. January 1723, Welsh pirate captain, Nevis & Grand Cayman), Jacob Evertson (fl. 1680–1688, var. Jacob Everson, Dutch buccaneer captain, Jamaica), Henry Every (fl. 1694–1696, “Long Ben”, var. Henry Bridgeman, Pirate Round fleet commander, Plymouth & Red Sea), Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin (c. 1645–c. 1707, Buccaneer surgeon & chronicler, Tortuga), Martha Farley (fl. 1725–1727, var. Mary Harvey, Female piracy defendant, Ocracoke & Williamsburg), Joseph Faro (fl. 1694–1696, var. Joseph Farrell, Pirate Round captain, Newport, Rhode Island), John Fenn (fl. 1721–1723, Pirate consort captain, Antigua), John Fillmore (1702–1777, Forced mariner & revolt leader, Ipswich, Massachusetts), William Fly (c. 1699–1726, Mutineer & pirate captain, Bristol & Boston), Pierre François (fl. c. 1655–1665, French flibustier captain, Tortuga), Harry Glasby (fl. 1720–1722, Forced sailing master, Cape Lopez), Christopher Goffe (fl. 1683–1696, Pirate & Massachusetts pirate hunter, Boston), William Goodson (1610–c. 1680, var. William Goodsonn, English naval vice-admiral, Jamaica), George Gordon (fl. 1716–1721, Royal Navy Post-Captain, Virginia station), John Gow (d. June 1725, alias Captain John Smith, Scottish pirate captain, Orkney & Execution Dock), Thomas Green (c. 1680–1705, East Indiaman captain & defendant, Leith Sands, Edinburgh), Henry Greenville (c. 1679–1726, Mutineer & pirate, Boston), François Grogniet (d. 1687, French South Sea flibustier captain, Guayaquil), Lewis Guittar (d. November 13, 1700, var. Louis Guittar, French pirate captain, Lynnhaven Bay), John Halsey (c. 1662–1708, Privateer & Pirate Round captain, Boston & Madagascar), Lord Archibald Hamilton (1673–1754, Governor of Jamaica, Spanish Town), Walter Hamilton (fl. 1690–1722, Governor of the Leeward Islands, Antigua), Jean Hamlin (fl. 1682–1684, var. John Hamelin, French pirate captain, St. Thomas), Israel Hands (fl. 1718–1719, var. Basilica Hands, Blackbeard’s sailing master, Bath Town), Andrew Harradine (fl. 1724, Mariner & captor, Annisquam, Massachusetts), Charles Harris (c. 1698–1723, Pirate consort captain, Newport, Rhode Island), Peter Harris (d. 1680, the Elder, Buccaneer captain, Panama Bay), Peter Harris (fl. 1684–1685, the Younger, South Sea buccaneer captain, Pacific), Simon Hatley (fl. 1708–1720, Privateer officer, Bristol & South Sea), Thomas Hawkins (d. 1689, Pirate mariner, Boston & Tarpaulin Cove), Thomas Henley (fl. 1683–1685, Pirate & privateer captain, Boston & Bermuda), Fernando Henriquez (fl. 1715–1717, var. Francis Fernando Fernandez, Jamaican privateer, Port Royal), David Herriot (d. November 5, 1718, Sailing master, Jamaica & Charles Town), Peter Heywood (d. 1725, Acting Governor of Jamaica, Port Royal), Benjamin Hornigold (d. 1719, Pirate commodore & Bahamas pirate hunter, Nassau), Thomas Howard (fl. 1698–c. 1704, Pirate Round captain, London & Madagascar), William Howard (fl. 1717–1719, Blackbeard’s quartermaster, Williamsburg), James Howe (fl. 1696–1701, Pirate seaman, Old Bailey), Captain Francis Hume (fl. 1716–1718, var. Thomas Hume, Royal Navy Post-Captain, St. Croix), John Ireland (fl. 1694–1696, Pirate Round captain, New York & Indian Ocean), Jean Baptiste Jedre (d. November 2, 1726, var. John Baptista, Acadian pirate defendant, Boston), William Jenkins (fl. 1696–1701, Apprentice & Old Bailey defendant, Bow, London), Henry Jennings (fl. 1715–1718, Privateer & pirate commodore, Jamaica & Nassau), Robert Johnson (c. 1676–1735, Governor of South Carolina, Charles Town), John Julian (c. 1701–1733, Mosquito Coast pilot on Whydah, Cape Cod), Walter Kennedy (c. 1695–1721, Pirate captain, Deptford & Execution Dock), William Kidd (c. 1645–1701, Privateer & Pirate Round captain, Greenock, New York & Execution Dock), Tobias Knight (d. June 1719, Provincial Secretary & Judge, Bath Town, North Carolina), William Knight (fl. 1679–1688, South Sea buccaneer captain, Port Royal), John Lambert (c. 1655–1704, Pirate officer, Salem & Boston), Robert Lamley (fl. 1696–1701, var. Lumley, Apprentice & Old Bailey defendant, London), Thomas Larimore (fl. 1695–1704, Massachusetts militia pirate hunter, Cape Ann), Sir Nicholas Lawes (c. 1652–1731, Governor of Jamaica, Spanish Town), Michel Le Basque (fl. 1665–1668, French flibustier commander, Tortuga & Maracaibo), Pierre Le Grand (fl. c. 1652, Norman flibustier pioneer, Dieppe & Tortuga), Pierre Le Picard (fl. 1666–1690, French flibustier captain, Tortuga & South Sea), Olivier Levasseur (c. 1688–1730, “La Buse”, var. Olivier La Bouche, French pirate captain, Bourbon), Captain Lewis (d. c. 1701, Multilingual pirate captain, West Indies), Samuel Liddell (fl. 1716, Jamaican privateer master, Port Royal), James Littleton (c. 1668–1723, Royal Navy Commodore, Madagascar), Robert Livingston (1654–1728, Colonial New York merchant & Kidd backer, Albany & New York), Gabriel Loffe (fl. 1696–1701, Pirate seaman, Long Island & Old Bailey), Edward Low (c. 1690–fl. 1724, var. Ned Low, Pirate captain, Westminster & Boston), George Lowther (d. 1723, Mutineer & pirate captain, Gambia & Blanco), Sir Thomas Lynch (bap. 1633–1684, Governor of Jamaica, Port Royal), Dennis MacCarthy (d. December 1718, Relapsed pirate & mutineer, Nassau), William Mackett (fl. 1716–1728, English merchant captain, London & Madagascar), Captain James Macrae (c. 1677–1746, var. Captain Mackra, East Indiaman commander & Governor, Ayrshire & Johanna), John Madder (d. April 11, 1705, Chief mate of the Worcester, Leith Sands, Edinburgh), Edward Mansfield (d. 1667, var. Mansvelt, Buccaneer admiral, Curaçao & Tortuga), John Martel (fl. 1716–1717, Pirate captain, Jamaica & St. Croix), Edward Massey (d. July 1723, Royal African Company officer & co-mutineer, Gambia & Execution Dock), Cotton Mather (1663–1728, Puritan minister & piracy chronicler, Boston), Thomas Matthews (1676–1751, Royal Navy Commodore, Bombay & Madagascar), William May (fl. 1694–1699, Pirate Round captain, Newport, Rhode Island), Robert Maynard (c. 1684–1751, Royal Navy First Lieutenant & pirate hunter, Hampton & Ocracoke Inlet), William Maze (fl. 1693–1700, var. William Mays, Red Sea privateer captain, Newport), John Miller (d. June 30, 1704, Pirate gunner’s mate, Yorkshire & Boston), Sir Thomas Modyford (c. 1620–1679, 1st Baronet, Governor of Jamaica, Port Royal), Étienne de Montauban (c. 1660–1700, Sieur de Montauban, French flibustier captain, Bordeaux & Guinea), Christopher Moody (c. 1694–1722, Pirate officer, Cape Coast Castle), William Moore (d. October 30, 1697, Gunner of the Adventure Galley, Indian Ocean), Sir Henry Morgan (c. 1635–1688, Welsh buccaneer admiral & Lt.-Gov. of Jamaica, Port Royal), John Morris (fl. 1663–1672, Jamaican buccaneer captain, Port Royal), Darby Mullins (c. 1661–1701, Irish pirate seaman, Londonderry & Execution Dock), Sir Christopher Myngs (1625–1666, var. Christopher Mings, Royal Navy commander, Port Royal), Jean-David Nau (c. 1630–c. 1668, “François l’Olonnais”, French flibustier commander, Tortuga), Francis Nicholson (1655–1728, Colonial Governor of Virginia & South Carolina, Lynnhaven Bay), Nathaniel North (c. 1671–c. 1716, Bermudian pirate captain, Bermuda & Madagascar), John Nutt (d. April 1724, Pirate sailing master, Newfoundland), Chaloner Ogle (c. 1681–1750, Royal Navy Post-Captain of HMS Swallow, Cape Lopez), Abel Owens (fl. 1695–1701, Ship’s cook & Old Bailey defendant, New York), Joseph Palmer (fl. 1696–1701, Seaman & Crown witness, Old Bailey), Hugh Parrot (fl. 1695–1701, Seaman & Old Bailey defendant, Devonshire), William Passenger (fl. 1695–1708, Royal Navy Post-Captain of HMS Shoreham, Lynnhaven Bay), Samuel Pease (d. October 12, 1689, Massachusetts pirate-hunter captain, Boston & Vineyard Sound), Ignatius Pell (fl. 1717–1718, Boatswain & Crown witness, Charles Town), Don Juan Pérez de Guzmán y Gonzaga (fl. 1665–1671, Spanish Governor of Panama, Panama), Frederick Philipse (1626–1702, Colonial merchant, New York), John Phillips (d. April 18, 1724, Pirate captain of the Revenge, Devonshire & Newfoundland), John Plantain (fl. 1718–1728, “King of Ranter Bay”, Jamaican pirate chieftain, Madagascar), Bartolomeo Português (fl. 1666–1669, Portuguese buccaneer captain, Jamaica & Campeche), Thomas Pound (fl. 1687–d. 1703, Coastal pilot & pirate captain, Boston & Tarpaulin Cove), Lawrence Prince (fl. 1668–1671, Dutch-born Port Royal buccaneer officer, Jamaica), John Pro (fl. 1700–1719, Dutch Madagascar pirate settler, Fort Dauphin), John Quelch (c. 1666–1704, Brigantine Charles pirate commander, Marblehead & Boston), John Rackham (d. November 18, 1720, “Calico Jack”, Pirate captain, Nassau & Port Royal), Sieur Raveneau de Lussan (b. c. 1663, fl. 1679–1690, French South Sea flibustier & author, Paris & Darién), Mary Read (d. April 1721, Female freebooter, Nassau & Spanish Town), William Rhett (1666–1723, Militia Colonel & pirate hunter, Charles Town & Cape Fear), John Rhoade (fl. 1674–1679, var. John Rhoades, Coasting trader & Dutch privateer pilot, Boston & Acadia), Basil Ringrose (c. 1653–1686, South Sea buccaneer navigator & diarist, London & Mexico), Bartholomew Roberts (c. 1682–1722, “Black Bart”, Welsh pirate commodore, Pembrokeshire & Cape Lopez), Philip Roche (d. August 1723, alias John Eustace, Irish mutineer & pirate, Cork & Execution Dock), Peter Roderigo (fl. 1674–1676, Flemish privateer & Acadia rover, Flanders & Boston), Woodes Rogers (c. 1679–1732, Circumnavigator & Royal Governor of the Bahamas, Bristol & Nassau), George Rounsivel (d. December 1718, var. George Rounsivell, Reprieved Nassau mariner, New Providence), Abraham Samuel (d. c. 1705, “King Samuel”, Castaway pirate ruler, Fort Dauphin, Madagascar), Richard Sawkins (d. May 1680, Buccaneer commander, Port Royal & Pueblo Nuevo), Christopher Scudamore (d. June 30, 1704, Ship’s cooper in Quelch’s crew, Bristol & Boston), Peter Scudamore (d. April 1722, Chief surgeon to Bartholomew Roberts, Bristol & Cape Coast Castle), Jasper Seagar (d. 1721, Pirate captain of the Cassandra, Madagascar), Robert Searle (fl. 1662–1671, alias John Davis, Buccaneer captain, Port Royal & St. Augustine), Alexander Selkirk (1676–1721, Scottish sailing master & castaway, Lower Largo & Juan Fernández), Samuel Sewall (1652–1730, Colonial Massachusetts judge, Boston), Stephen Sewall (1657–1725, Militia Major & pirate captor, Salem, Massachusetts), Bartholomew Sharp (c. 1650–1702, var. Bartholomew Sharpe, South Sea buccaneer captain, London & Pacific), James Simpson (d. April 11, 1705, Gunner of the Worcester, Leith Sands, Edinburgh), James Skyrme (d. April 1722, Welsh pirate captain of the Ranger, Wales & Cape Coast Castle), Peter Solgard (d. 1740, Royal Navy Captain of HMS Greyhound, New York & Rhode Island), Alexander Spotswood (c. 1676–1740, Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia, Williamsburg), Francis Spriggs (fl. 1722–1725, Pirate captain of the Delight, Bay of Honduras), Ralph Stout (fl. 1691–1697, Mutineer & Mocha Frigate commander, Indian Ocean), Thomas Stradling (fl. 1703–1712, Privateer captain of the Cinque Ports, Juan Fernández), Charles Swan (d. c. 1690, Captain of the Cygnet, London & Mindanao), David Sympson (d. April 1722, Scottish pirate officer, North Berwick & Cape Coast Castle), John Taylor (fl. 1718–1723, Pirate captain of the Victory & Cassandra, Madagascar & Portobelo), Edward Teach (c. 1680–1718, “Blackbeard”, var. Edward Thatch, Pirate commodore, Nassau & Ocracoke Inlet), Thomas Tew (d. September 1695, Pioneer Pirate Round captain, Newport & Red Sea), Francis Townley (d. September 1686, South Sea buccaneer commander, Panama Bay), Nicholas Trott (1663–1740, Vice-Admiralty Judge, Nassau & Charles Town), Robert Tucker (d. November 8, 1718, Quartermaster to Stede Bonnet, Barbados & Charles Town), Nikolaas Van Hoorn (c. 1635–1683, Dutch privateer & buccaneer commander, Vlissingen & Veracruz), Simon Van Vorst (b. 1693, fl. 1717, Pirate seaman, New York & Boston), Charles Vane (d. March 29, 1721, Pirate captain, Nassau & Port Royal), John Vidal (fl. May–September 1727, var. Vedell, Irish pirate leader, Ocracoke Inlet & Williamsburg), Lionel Wafer (c. 1660–1705, Buccaneer surgeon & Darién author, Isthmus of Panama), Thomas Wake (d. 1696, Pirate Round captain of the Susanna, Boston & Madagascar), William Want (fl. 1692–1696, Pirate Round captain of the Dolphin, Rhode Island & Persian Gulf), Thomas Warren (d. November 1699, Royal Navy Commodore, St. Mary’s Island, Madagascar), John Watling (d. January 30, 1681, Elected South Sea buccaneer captain, Arica), Brigstock Weaver (fl. 1720–1725, Pirate captain of the Good Fortune, Bristol & London), Thomas White (d. March 1708, Pirate Round captain, Plymouth & Madagascar), William Whiting (d. June 30, 1704, Pirate mariner in Quelch’s crew, Marblehead & Boston), Jan Willems (d. 1688, “Yankey”, Dutch buccaneer captain, Petit-Goâve & Cartagena), David Williams (d. c. 1709, Welsh Madagascar pirate captain, Anglesey & Madagascar), Paulsgrave Williams (fl. 1716–1723, Silversmith & pirate captain, Newport & Bahamas), Thomas Windsor (c. 1627–1687, 7th Baron Windsor, Royal Governor of Jamaica, Port Royal), Christopher Winter (fl. 1716–1722, Pirate captain in Spanish service, Nassau & Trinidad de Cuba), Richard Worley (d. November 1718, Pirate captain, New York & Charles Town).