R I C H A R D I N G L E . a l Captain Richard Ingle, pirate and a rebe , was discovered hov ” — i 5 JlI cS/zerr H i st or o J far l and . 9 . ering about the settlement . y , y f y , p The destruction of the records by him [ Ingle"has involved this episode ” — d 9 . &c J oh n3 0 n Found at i on o flI ar l an . 9 in impenetrable obscurity, . , f y , p ‘ Captain Ingle, the pirate, the man who gloried in the name of The ’ ” —D avi 3 T h 1 . D 2 0 . e a St ar . Reformation , y , p fi That Heinous Rebellion rst put in Practice by that Pirate Ingle . A ct s o A ssmnb l 1638- 64 23 8. f y , , p . Those late troubles raised there b y that ungrateful Villaine Richard ” - 27 I b 0 . i d . Ingle . , p I a and a o od hold it that little rebellion, now then , is g thing and as ” — ' w o rl d J e erson necessary in the political as storms in the physical . fi , f rks I I I "o ol . 105 V . , , p P E A BOD Y P "B L I C A T I ON F"N D . COM M ITTE E O N P "B L I C A T I ON . 1 4—5 88 . H E N R Y ST OC KB E R I D G , J OH N w M L E E . , B R A D L E Y T . J OH N SON . P R I N T E D B Y J O H N " M R P H Y C o . ’ ‘ P R I N T E R S T O T H E M A R Y L A N D H I S T OR l c n L i B A L T I M E O R , CAP T AI N R I CHAR D I NGLE , M A R YL A N D “ P I R A T E R E BE L THE AND . N the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the fro m I American colonies , Massachusetts to v u South Carolina , were at inter als s bj ect to V W h o isitations of pirates , were wont to appear u o n t o a. suddenly p the coasts , pillage settlement or attack trading vessels and as suddenly to take fli gh t to their strongholds . Captain Kidd was l o n v o nl W g celebrated in prose and erse , and y ithin a fe w years have credulo us people ceased to seek - s . his buried trea ures The arch villain , Black beard , was a terror to Virginians and Carolinians “ ? o f until Spotswood A Horseshoe fame , took the i n n h i rh matter ha d , and sent after lieutenant i n h a nd Maynard , who , slaying the pirate to hand ‘ c o nfli c t . , returned with his head at the bowsprit Lapse of ti m e has cas t a ro m antic and semi l m o r aro und mythologic g a these depredators , and 12 Br . ock, p 6 d i ffi it is in many insta nces at this day extremely i o n un ro cult to distinguish fact from fic t . The p t h e t ec t ed situation of many settlements along seaboard colonies rendered them an e asy prey to v m i rapacious sea ro ers , but it ght have been ’ expected th at t h e M aryland shores of the Chesa peake bay would be free from their harassi ngs . v n The pro ince , however , it seems was not to e j oy ri n t ed n l such good fortune , for in the p a na s of her n W h o h as life appears the ame of one man , been handed d own from generation to generation as a “ ” “ l a a. un V pirate , rebel and an gratefu ill in , and other equal ly complimentary epithets have been applied to him . The original historians of Maryland based their ideas about him upon some of the statem ents m ade by those w hom he had an d ff r inj ured or attacked , who di ered f om him in T h e political creed . later history writers have sat i sfi e d B o z ni an been to follow such authors as , M c M ah o n M c Sh err and y , or to copy them directly w n i ithout consulti g or ginal records . To the gen eral reader , therefore , who relies upon these author ” 1 h n a. r ities , Ric ard I gle is pirate a id rebel still . A thorough d efen ce of him would be almost im possib le in View of the comparative scarcity of records and the complicated politics of his l R e v E d . w D N . I am b eill , to whom inde ted for valuable references, was fi rst D r m the to attempt any kind of a defence of Ingle, but . W . Hand B s rowne, who al o has greatly aided me, has omitted the pirate and rebel i s clause in the h tory which he is preparing for the Commonwealth Series . 7 time . In a review of his relations with Mary land , however , and by a presentation of all the m a facts , some light y be thrown upon his general n character , and expla ations , if not a defence , of his a m a cts y be made . ’ Richard Ingle s name fi rst appears in the records 23rd of Maryland under date of March , when he petitioned the Assembly against G iles Brent u b ff to ching the serving of an execution y the sheri . H e fe w had come to the province a weeks before , bringing in his vessel Captain Thomas Cornwallis , o ne r of the original council , the g eatest man in t Maryland at tha time , who had been spending 1 some months in England . Between the time of i his arrival and the date of his petition l ngl e had n no doubt bee plying his business , tobacco trading , in the inlets and rivers of the province . No fur th er record of h i m i n Mar y land this year has been 3 rd preserved , but Winthrop wrote that on May , “ M 1612 r . , The ship Eleanor of London one HI ngl ee ”master arrived at Boston she was laden m t with tobacco fro Virginia , and having been abou 4 1 days at sea she was taken with such a tem pest, u that though all her sails were down and made p, yet they were blow n from the yards and she was t w o an d l o w laid over on one side a half hours , so ‘ — 1 4 120 L Oth s . I . c 1638 66 . A ssembly Pro eedings, , p , and ee Record , Vol , m w al e s 582 o C o , p . In the Maryland rec rds the name is spelled y but in i t i as s el l i n . o t his paper the rule h as be en adopted of p g C rnwall s, it is known o t h istory . 8 as the water stood upon her deck and the sea over raking her continually and the day was as dark as c ut if it had been night , and though they had her m r i h t e d n o t a . asts , yet she g till the tempest assu ged She staid here till t h e 4t h of the (4) and was well ' at s uch fit t e d with masts , sails , rigging and victuals reasonable rates as that the master was m uch affected with his entertainment and professed that he never found the like us age in Virginia where he ” 1 had traded these t e n years . Although his name is given an additional 6 and there are some fe w a t t seeming discrepancies , the f c s aken together point to the probability of his bei n g Richar d Ingle n a on his return voy age to E gland . Next y e r he a a M r . was again in Maryl nd , and , as ttorney for w C o ck sh o t t Penniston and partners , sued wido for d ebts incurred by her husband . The next entry in “ ” the Provincial Records under this date , March 6t h a a , is an attachment gainst Willi m Har 2 dige in case of Captain Cornwallis . This William ’ H ar d i e w as g , who afterward one of - Ingle s chief accusers , was very frequently involved in suits for debts to Cornwallis , and others . About the mid ’ ’ VVi n t h r0 s N ew 75 . W p History of England, Vol II , p . inthrop gave “ J ” another spelling , ugle, no doubt obtained from the signature, as has e m b en done with the name more than once in odern times . In a bill sent St ’s " . F l st to the grand ury at Mary , Maryland , ebruary , it was ' ’ s 1642 ” tated that Ingle s ship in was the Reformation .