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The Pirates' Who's THE PIRATES’ WHO’S WHO VOLUME 4: PHILLIPS – ZEKERMAN Dancing Lights Press Join our community at DancingLightsPress.com Follow us on Twitter @LightsPress SampleThe bearer of this document has the express file written permission of the publisher to make copies for personal use. The Pirates’ Who’s Who by Phillip Gosse is based upon works in the public domain. Introduction and commentary copyright 2021 Berin Kinsman. All rights reserved. This is version 1.0 of this document. Special Thanks Denise Webster, Josephine Lawson, Agnes Foster, Homer Taylor, Jean Watson, Benjamin Silva, Roger Franklin, Dave Thompson, Keith Ferguson, Sidney Becker, Hugo Turner, Louis Williams, Lorene Alexander, Julio Meyer, Marguerite Townsend, Cameron Price, Kathleen Drake, Eunice Cobb, Roy Gray, Rachael Buchanan, Ignacio Ross, Santos McCormick, Javier Moss, Winston McKinney, Estelle Wolfe, Rudolph Hoffman, Grace Frank, Yolanda Burgess, Elias Barber, Hannah Cooper, Michelle Campbell, Ernesto Perry, Marco Lane, Nicholas Simmons, Melissa Joseph, Vicky Gibbs, Kara Walton, Dewey Hogan, Casey Carter, Bobby Cook, Shawn Reed, Nichole Sutton, Edgar Gardner, Jason Herrera, Kristopher Stephens, Armando Steele, Joshua Ortega, Ginger Hines, Jacob Jensen, Oliver Maldonado. They know why, and that’s what matters. Sample file CONTENTS P........................................................................1 Q........................................................................8 R........................................................................9 S.......................................................................30 T.......................................................................49 U......................................................................63 V......................................................................65 W.....................................................................71 Y.......................................................................90 Z.......................................................................91 ABOUT DANCING LIGHTS PRESS.......................91 Sample file P PHILLIPS, JOHN A carpenter by trade, he sailed from the West Country for Newfoundland in a ship that was captured by the pirate Anstis in the Good Fortune. Phillips soon became reconciled to the life of a pirate, and, being a brisk fellow, he was appointed carpenter to the ship. Returning to England he soon found it necessary to quit the country again, and he shipped himself on board a vessel at Topsham for Newfoundland. On arriving at Peter Harbour he ran away, and hired himself as a splitter to the Newfoundland cod fishery. On the night of August 29th, 1723, with four others, he stole a vessel in the harbour and sailed away. Phillips was chosen captain. Articles were now drawn up and were sworn to upon a hatchet, because no Bible could be found on board. Amongst other laws was the punishment of "40 stripes lacking one, known as Moses's law, to be afflicted for striking a fellow-pirate." The last law of the nine casts a curious light on these murderers; it runs: "If at any time you meet with a prudent Woman, that Man that offers to meddle with her, without her Consent, shall suffer present Death." The pirates, fortified by these laws, met with instant success, taking several fishing vessels, from which they augmented their small crew by the addition of several likely and brisk seamen. Amongst these they had the good fortune to take prisoner an old pirate called John Rose SampleArcher, who had served his pirate apprenticeship underfile the able tuition of the famous Blackbeard, and who they at once promoted to be quartermaster. This quick promotion caused 1 trouble afterwards, for some of the original crew, particularly carpenter Fern, resented it. The pirates next sailed to Barbados, that happy hunting ground, but for three months never a sail did they meet with, so that they were almost starving for want of provisions, being reduced to a pound of dried meat a day amongst ten of them. At last they met with a French vessel, a Martinico ship, of twelve guns, and hunger drove them to attack even so big a ship as this, but the sight of the Black flag so terrified the French crew that they surrendered without firing a shot. After this, they took several vessels, and matters began to look much brighter. Phillips quickly developed into a most accomplished and bloody pirate, butchering his prisoners on very little or on no provocation whatever. But even this desperate pirate had an occasional "qualm of conscience come athwart his stomach," for when he captured a Newfoundland vessel and was about to scuttle her, he found out that she was the property of a Mr. Minors of that island, from whom they stole the original vessel in which they went a-pirating, so Phillips, telling his companions "We have done him enough injury already," ordered the vessel to be repaired and returned to the owner. On another occasion, they took a ship, the master of which was a "Saint" of New England, by name Dependance Ellery, who gave them a pretty chase before being overhauled, and so, as a punishment, the "Saint" was compelled to dance the deck until he fell down Sampleexhausted. file 2 This pirate's career ended with a mutiny of his unruly crew, Phillips being tripped up and then thrown overboard to drown off Newfoundland in April, 1724. During the nine months of Phillips's command as a pirate captain, he accounted for more than thirty ships. PHILLIPS, WILLIAM Born at Lower Shadwell. Boatswain in the King Solomon, a Guinea merchant ship. This ship, while lying at anchor in January, 1721, was attacked by a boatful of pirates from Bartholomew Roberts's ship, the Royal Fortune. The captain of the King Solomon fired a musket at the approaching boat, and called upon his crew to do the same, but Phillips called for quarter and persuaded the rest of the crew to lay down their arms and surrender the ship. Phillips eagerly joined the pirates and signed the articles, and was "very forward and brisk" in helping to rob his own ship of provisions and stores. At his trial at Cape Coast Castle, he pleaded, as nearly all the prisoners did, that he was compelled to sign the pirates' articles, which were offered to him on a dish, on which lay a loaded pistol beside the copy of the articles. Found guilty and hanged in April, 1722, within the flood marks at Cape Coast Castle, in his 29th year. PHIPS, RICHARD An English soldier who deserted from Fort Loyal, Falmouth, Maine, in 1689. Wounded by a bullet in the head at SampleTarpaulin Cove. Taken to Boston Prison, where he died.file 3 PICKERING, CAPTAIN CHARLES Commanded the Cinque Ports galley, sixteen guns, crew of sixty-three men, and accompanied Dampier on his voyage in 1703. Died off the coast of Brazil in the same year. PIERSE, GEORGE Tried for piracy along with the rest of the crew of the brigantine Charles, at Boston, in 1704. POLEAS, PEDRO Spanish pirate. Co-commander with Captain Johnson of a pirate sloop, the Two Brothers. In March, 1731, took a ship, the John and Jane (Edward Burt, master), south of Jamaica, on board of which was a passenger, John Cockburn, who afterwards wrote a book relating his adventures on a journey on foot of 240 miles on the mainland of America. PORTER, CAPTAIN A West Indian pirate, who commanded a sloop, and, in company with a Captain Tuckerman in another sloop, came one day into Bennet's Key in Hispaniola. The two captains were but beginners at piracy, and finding the great Bartholomew Roberts in the bay, paid him a polite visit, hoping to pick up a few wrinkles from the "master." This scene is described by Captain Johnson, in his "Lives of the Pirates," when Porter and his friend "addressed the Pyrate, as the Queen of Sheba did Solomon, to wit, That having heard of his Fame and Achievements, they had put in there to learn his SampleArt and Wisdom in the Business of pyrating, being Vesselsfile on the same honourable Design with himself; and hoped with 4 the Communication of his Knowledge, they should also receive his Charity, being in want of Necessaries for such Adventures. Roberts was won upon by the Peculiarity and Bluntness of these two Men and gave them Powder, Arms, and what ever else they had Occasion for, spent two or three merry Nights with them, and at parting, said, he hoped the L---- would Prosper their handy Works." POUND, CAPTAIN THOMAS On August 8th, 1689, this pirate, with five men and a boy, sailed out of Boston Harbour as passengers in a small vessel. When off Lovell's Island, five other armed men joined them. Pound now seized the craft and took command, and declared his intention of going on a piratical cruise. The first vessel they met with they decided to take. It was a fishing boat. Pound ran his craft alongside, but at the last moment his heart failed him, and he merely bought eight penn'o'th of mackerel from the surprised fishermen. He then sailed to Falmouth, Maine, where the corporal and soldiers of the guard at the fort deserted in the night and sailed off with Pound and his crew. Fortified by this addition to his crew, the pirate attacked a sloop, the Good Speed, off Cape Cod, and a brigantine, the Merrimack, and several other prizes. By this time, the Governor at Boston had heard of Pound's escapades, and sent an armed sloop, the Mary, to search for him. The pirate was discovered in Tarpaulin Cove, and a fierce and bloody fight took place before the pirates Samplestruck their "Red flagg." The prisoners were cast intofile Boston Gaol to await their trial. Pound had been wounded, being shot 5 in the arm and side. The trial took place on January 13th, 1690. Pound was found guilty, but reprieved, and was sent to England, but was later on liberated. Afterwards he got command of a ship. He died in England in 1703. POWELL, THOMAS Of Connecticut, New England. One of Captain Charles Harris's crew. Hanged at Newport, Rhode Island, on July 19th, 1723, at the age of 21.
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