The Sloops trading in the River, being so often pillaged by _Blackbeard_, consulted with the traders what course to take, knowing it was in vain to make any application to the Governor; therefore they sent a deputation to the Governor of _Virginia_, to sollicit a force from the Men-of-War to destroy this Pirate. Accordingly the Governor consulted with the Captains of the _Pearl_ and _Lime_ Men-of-War, which lay in _St. James's_ River; whereupon it was agreed, That the Governor should have a couple of small Sloops, and they should be mann'd out of the Men of War, the Command of which was given to Mr. _Robert Maynard_, first Lieutenant of the _Pearl_. But before they sailed, it was agreed in Council, to offer a reward of 100_l._ for _any one that should take _Edward Teach_, commonly called _Blackbeard_; _for every_ Lieutenant, Master, Quarter-Master, Boatswain, _or_ Carpenter Twenty Pounds; For every inferior Officer, Fifteen Pounds; And for every Man taken on Board each Sloop, Ten Pounds_. Upon this, the Lieutenant sailed from _James's_ River in _Virginia_, the 17th of _November_, 1718, and the 21st in the evening came to _Okere-cock_ Inlet, where he had fight of the Pirate: And altho' this Expedition was made with all the Secrecy imaginable, yet _Blackbeard_ had notice of it from the Governor of North _Carolina_ and his Secretary: But having heard several false reports before, he gave the less credit to this, till he saw the Sloops; and then he put himself in a Posture of defence, with his 25 Men. Lieutenant _Maynard_ came to an anchor that night, because the Channel was so intricate that there was no getting in, in the dark. In the Morning, coming within gun-shot of the Pirate, he received his fire: whereupon the _Maynard_ stood directly towards him, endeavouring to make a running fight. _Maynard's_ men being most expos'd, he lost twenty at one broadside; upon which he ordered his men under deck, and bid them get ready for close fighting upon the first signal. Then _Blackbeard's_ men pour'd in grenadoes; after which, seeing no Hands aboard, he told his men they were all kill'd; _Let's jump in, and fall to Plunder_: Which they had no sooner done, but the Lieutenant and his men gave them as unwelcome a reception as ever they met with before. The Lieutenant and _Blackbeard_ fired first at each other, and then they went to it sword in hand, whilst the men on each side were as warmly engaged as their Captains, until the vessel was all over blood. _Blackbeard_ stood it till he had received above twenty wounds, five of them being shots, before he fell down dead. Eight of his fourteen men being kill'd, and the other six being much wounded, they call'd for quarters; which was granted, and then the Lieutenant attacked with equal bravery the men that remained in the Sloop and took them.