The Lieutenant caused _Blackbeard's_ head to be cut off, and hung at the bowsprit end; with which he sailed to _Bath Town_ to get his wounded men cured, and then began to rummage the Pirate Sloop, aboard which they found several Letters of Correspondence betwixt the Governor of _North Carolina_, his Secretary, and some Traders of _New York_ and _Blackbeard_. Thereupon going to _Bath Town_ in _North Carolina_, he seized in the Governors Store-house, the Sixty Hogsheads of Sugar, and Mr. _Knight_ his Secretary's 20, which was their dividend of the plunder taken in the _French_ Ship before-mentioned. After his Men were a little recovered, he returned to the Men-of-War in _James's_ River in _Virginia_, with _Blackbeard's_ head hanging at his bowsprit, and 15 prisoners, 13 of whom were hanged, one of them being taken but the night before out of a trading Sloop: The other, not being in the fight, was taken at _Bath Town_, being just before disabled by _Blackbeard_ in one of his drunken humours. The night before he was killed, being ask'd if he should chance to be killed, whether his wife knew where his money was; he answered, _That no-body but himself and the Devil, knew where it was, and the longest Liver should take all_. * * * * * The Names of the Pirates killed in the engagement were _Edward Blackbeard_, Commander; _Philip Morton_, Gunner; _Garnet Gibbons_, Boatswain; _Owen Roberts_, Carpenter; _Thomas Miller_, Quarter-Master; _John Husk_, _Joseph Curtice_, _Joseph Brooks_, _Nath. Jackson_. The following, except the two last, were hanged, viz.: _John Carnes_, _Jo. Brookes, jun._, _James Blake_, _John Gibbs_, _Thomas Gates_, _James White_, _Richard Styles_, _Cesar_, _Joseph Philip_, _James Robbins_, _John Martyn_, _Edward Salter_, _Stephen Daniel_, _Richard Greensarl_, _Israel Hands_, and _Samuel Odel_. [Illustration] [Illustration: MAJOR STEDE BONNET] [Illustration] MAJOR STEDE BONNET, AND HIS CREW The Major was a Gentleman of Fortune and Distinction in the Island of _Barbadoes_, who before his Piracy bore the character of a worthy honest _man_, and no-body could ever account for this his undertaking, for he wanted neither learning nor understanding. He fitted out a Sloop with ten guns and sixty men, which he named the _Revenge_, at his own expence, and sailed from _Barbadoes_ for the Cape of _Virginia_, where he took the _Anne_ from _Glasgow_, the _Turbet_ from _Barbadoes_, the _Endeavour_ from _Bristol_, the _Young_ from _Leith_, and many others. From thence he went to _New York_, and there took a Sloop, and then stood in at _Gardiner's_ Island where he bought provisions, and went off. _August_, 1717, he came off at the Bar of _South Carolina_, and took a Sloop and Brigantine, which they plundered, and then he dismissed the Brigantine, but took the Sloop with him to an Inlet in _North-Carolina_, where he careened, and set her on fire.