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bindex.qxd 4/24/06 11:42 AM Page 311 Index Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations. Admiralty Courts, 51, 203, 206, 224, of Adventure, 255 234, 240, 269 Bath Town, 200, 286 Adventure, 127, 182–83, 201, 202, 206, Blackbeard’s skull displayed, 265 286 Henrietta Marie, 289 attack on Blackbeard and, 247, of hurricane of 1715, 130 252–54, 257–58, 260 Queen Anne’s Revenge, 144, 178, 249, pirate plunder found on, 273–74 286–93 African American pirates, 44, 48–49, architecture, of buildings 138 of Charles Town, 133 Blackbeard’s crew members on trial, Teach’s Kettle, 200 267–72 See also ships Black Caesar, 44, 257–58, 268, 271 Armada de la Guardia, 103 testimony forbidden from, 268, 275 atlases, 166 See also slavery Auger, John, 221–28 America, personified in illustration, 279 Avery, Henry. See Every, Henry ammunition, 179–80 Anne, queen of England, 26, 87, 217 “Bad Usage,” 50 Anstis, Thomas, 101, 195 Baer, Joel, 78 antipiracy campaigns, 103–4, 148 Bahamas, 13–15, 37 America, personified in illustration, economy of, 39–40 279 COPYRIGHTEDNassau, MATERIAL 38 carrot-and-stick policy, 66 New Providence, 34, 36, 39, 73, guard ships used for, 164–67 93–100 pardons, 66, 106–10, 147, 148, 220, as pirate haven, 36–40, 43 229, 270, 271 (See also individual privateering in, 62–63 names of pirates) trade by, 230–31 pirate ship/warship clashes, 167–71 See also Golden Age of Piracy; Rogers, See also executions; Rogers, Woodes; Woodes Spotswood, Alexander “banyans,” 196, 203–4, 204 archaeological evidence Barker, Andrew, 7 311 bindex.qxd 4/24/06 11:42 AM Page 312 312 INDEX Barker, John, 7 family of, 10–11, 15 Barnacko, identity of, 116 fictional depictions of, vii, 283–84 Barnet, Jonathan, 120–22, 229 final battle of, 246–57 Barrow (ship captain), 102 ghost legends about, 285, 286 Batchelor’s Adventure, 221, 222, 224 Hands shot by, 159 Bathsheba, 96 homes of, 5–10, 13–15, 186, 196–201, Bath Town, North Carolina, 184–85, 261, 284, 286 196–201 intimidation used by, 62, 91, 156–59, archaeological evidence, 200, 286 167, 175, 180 plunder stores found in, 261 Jolly Roger of, 177 Battle of Malplaquet, 214–15 journal of, 159–60 “bay men,” 28 as “Kentish,” 89 Bayne, Anne Butler, 216 legacy of, viii–x, 31, 282–83, 293 Beaufort, North Carolina, 150–51, marriage rumors about, 186, 199, 200 181–82 mentoring of, 35–36, 62–64, 80, 180 Belchin (ship captain), 97 pardon of, 198, 202–5 bell, from Queen Anne’s Revenge, 290 physical appearance of, viii, 4, 91, Bell, William, 275, 276 154–55 Bellamy, Charles, 104 sea knowledge of, 167 Bellamy, Sam, 57, 101 severed head of, 259–60, 260, 264–65 Bendall, George, 226 Blackbeard’s Ghost (Walt Disney), Bennet, Major. See Bonnet, Stede 284 Bennett, Benjamin, 41, 110, 281 Blackbeard’s Point, 264 Bermuda, trade and, 163 Blackbeard the Pirate, 284 Bernard, Jonathan, 128 Black Caesar, 44, 257–58, 268, 271 Betty, 68–69 Blair, Reverend James, 210, 213 Beverly, Harry, 100 Blake, James, 268, 272 Bibby, Robert, 90 blunderbuss barrel, 291 Blackbeard, vi, 106, 158 Board of Trade, 210, 217, 229 age of, 41 Bonnet, Stede, viii, 33, 63, 71, 127–28, arrival in Bahamas, 35–36 235, 281 “banyan” with Vane, 203–4, 204, aliases of, 89 281–82 biographical information, 74–76 birthplace of, 5–10, 13–15 Blackbeard and, 70–72, 77–80, 86, Bostock’s account of, 153–55 124, 189–90 Charles Town blockade by, 136–45 capture of, 190–96 (See also Charles Town, South pardon of, 183–85, 187–89 Carolina) Bonny, Anne, 3, 118, 119–22 cognomen attributed to, 154 Bostock, Henry, 90–91, 124, 153–55, crew abandoned by, 181–89, 207 158, 165 death of, 257–59 Boston Gazette, 175 dialect of, 11–12 Boston News Letter, 69 early piratical career of, 40, 43, 64, on Blackbeard’s last battle, 252, 253, 67–68 255, 256, 257, 259 education of, 13–14 on Blackbeard’s whereabouts, 74–75, Edward Teach as, 1, 3–5, 11–13, 77–78, 88 15–16 on Hornigold, 66 bindex.qxd 4/24/06 11:42 AM Page 313 INDEX 313 Brand, Ellis, viii, 159, 201, 205, 206 Blackbeard’s arrival (1718), 130, 136, Blackbeard pursued by, 239–44, 181 252–53, 259 Blackbeard’s departure, 145–51 evidence gathered by, 260–63, 273–78 blockade, events preceding, 123–30 Hands captured by, 267 blockade of, viii–ix, 136–45 Brattler, Nicholas, 57 Charles Town Bar, 136–37, 164 Bristol, England, 5–10, 13–15, 284 economy of, 133–35 British Gazetteer, 247, 253, 255 harbor, 77, 113 Brooks, Joseph, Sr., 259, 281 layout of, 130–33, 135–36 Brown, Nicholas, 104 charts, 166 Brunelle, Eugene, 287 Cinque Ports, 26 Bucaniers of America (Esquemeling), 14 Clark (ship captain), 136–37 buccaneers, 23, 51–52 Cocklyn, Thomas, 102, 220 Buck, 111 Cockram, Philip, 42–43, 67 Burgess, Josias, 224, 231 Codd (ship captain), 69, 70, 75, 79 Burgis, William, 65 colonies Burgiss, Thomas, 104 colonial America, personified, 279 Burns, Robert, 12 government policies of, 210–14 Butler, William, 246, 255 jurisdiction of, 218–19, 223–24 Byrd, William (the Younger), 280 militia of, 212, 233 See also individual colony names Cabot, John, 6–7 Concorde, xiii–xiv, 80–88, 143, 289–92. Cabot, Sebastian, 7 See also Queen Anne’s Revenge Cadogan, 41 Coudon (ship captain), 229, 281 calendars, xiii–xiv, 88 Connecticut, 211 Canonisation of William Defoe, The Cooke, John Esten, 265 (Furbank, Owens), 3 Cordingly, David, 2, 4, 30, 57, 250 Cape May, New Jersey, 73–74 Corioles, Governor, 96 Captain Singleton (Defoe), 2 Courant, Peter, 224 captains of pirate ships, 53. See also indi- Craggs (secretary, Board of Trade), 229 vidual names of pirates Craigh (ship captain), 137 Caribbean, Spanish Main, 29. See also Crowley, 136, 141, 145 individual names of locales Cunningham, William, 224, 226 Carnes, John, 281 Curtice, Joseph, 259 Cary, Thomas (Quaker leader), 197 cutters, 249 Cary (ship captain), 175–76, 177 Cary’s Rebellion, 197 Dampier, William, 14, 26, 28, 30 Catherine of Braganza, 214 Daniel, Robert, 64, 198 chainshot, 179 Daniel, Stephen, 281 Chamberlaine, Edmund, 276 Daniels, Mike, 287 Charles, archduke of Austria, 9 Davis, Howel, 41–42, 50, 58, 101 Charles I, king of England and Scot- Davis, John, 165 land, 38 Davis quadrant, 165 Charles II, king of England and Scot- Deal, Robert, 115–17 land, 214 Defoe, Daniel, 2–3, 13 Charles Town, South Carolina, 131, Defoe in the Pillory and Other Studies 140, 141, 149, 206 (Moore), 2–3 bindex.qxd 4/24/06 11:42 AM Page 314 314 INDEX Delaware Bay, 164, 167 slave ships of, 162 Delicia, 111–12, 224, 230 Treaty of Utrecht, 26 Demelt, Abraham, 253, 255, 257 War of the Quadrangle Alliance, 119, Depp, Johnny, 284–85 229, 232 diced shot, 179 See also individual names of monarchs Dill (ship captain), 113 England, Edward, 41, 101, 104 doblons (gold coins), 95 English Pilot, 166 Dolzell, Alexander (Dalziel), 34 Ernaud, François, 81, 87 Dosset, Pierre, 80–83, 87–88 Esquemeling, A. O., 14 Dowling, William, 226 Every, Henry, viii, 10, 14 Drake, Francis, 7–8 executions, 33–35, 43, 107, 171 Drummond, Edward, 11 of Auger, 224–28 drunkenness, 55, 57–59, 64, 135 of Blackbeard’s crew, 270–72 Drysdale, Hugh, 280 of Bonnet, 196, 235 Duchess, 13 of Deal, 117 Duke, 13 of Kidd, 34, 35, 43 of Rackam, 122 Eagle, 96 of Vane, 117 Earle, Peter, 16–17, 98 See also antipiracy campaigns; individ- East India Company, 133 ual names of pirates Echeverz y Zubiza, Don Antonio de, 95 Exuma Island, 221 Eden, Charles, viii, 148–50, 199–205, Exuma Sound, 150 218–19, 242 accused of corruption, 233–37, 268, Fancy, 65 270, 272, 275, 277–80 Farmer (ship captain), 69 Blackbeard pardoned by, 183, 198 Fife, James, 104 Bonnet pardoned by, 184–85 films, vii, 284–86 on Brand’s property seizure, 262, 272 Fisher, Mel, 21, 130 goods stored by, 261 flags, 174, 176–79, 179, 250 See also North Carolina; Spotswood, flota system, 103, 163 Alexander Flushing, 58 Edenton, 185 Fly, William, 49–50 Elliot, Hugh, 7 Fontaine, John, 215–16 Elliot, Roger, 214 Forbes (ship captain), 100 El Salvador, 286, 287 Fort Sumter, 135 England, 103–4, 164–67 Fortune, 194 Bahamas ownership and, 36, 38 France Bristol, 5–10, 13–15, 284 Haiti and, 125 Cary’s Rebellion, 197 Huguenots, 196–97 Charles Town defense and, 139 sea routes, 163 colonial governments and, 210–14 slave ships, 162 Glorious Revolution, 211, 214 Treaty of Utrecht, 26 Grand Cayman and, 129 Francis, 191 piracy laws of, 106–7 (See also Fulford, Anne. See Bonny, Anne antipiracy campaigns; executions) Furbank, P. N., 3 pirate executions in, 34–35 sea routes, 163 Gale, Wingate, 224 bindex.qxd 4/24/06 11:42 AM Page 315 INDEX 315 Gambia Castle, 45–46, 84 Greyhound of London, 18 Gates, Thomas, 268, 272 Grifón, 96 Gee (ship captain), 84 Guittar, Louis, 34 General History . of the most notorious Gulf of Honduras, 124, 127 Pyrates, A (Johnson), vi, vii, 2, 3, 54, guns, 85–86 106, 157, 158 on Adventure, 247 frontispiece, 292 fake, 174 retraction in, 277–78 on Queen Anne’s Revenge, 124, 173, success of, 283 288–90 “Captain Anstis,” 195 on Ranger and Jane, 241–42 “Captain England,” 84, 283 types of, 178–80 “Captain Lowther,” 84 See also weapons; individual names of “Captain Roberts,” 55–56, 84 ships “Captain Teach,” 3–5 “Captain Vane,” 112–13 Halifax, William, 224 See also Johnson, Charles Hamilton, William (governor of the Lee- George I, king of England, 87, 107, 192, ward Islands), 88, 89, 90, 124 211–13, 217, 219 Hamilton, Lord Archibald (governor of petitioned by Rogers, 232 Jamaica), 96–100 Spotswood and, 209 Hammock House, 186 Germania, 216 Hancock, king of Tuscarora Indians, 197 Gibbons, Garret, 2259 Hands, Israel, 128, 157, 159, 181–83, Gills, John, 271 272, 274–75 Giroux, Ray, 287 arrest of, 260 Glorious Revolution, 211, 214 in Bath Town, 245 Goelet (ship captain),