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The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates; Their Trials and Executions: Including a Correct Account of the Late Piracies Committed in the West-Indies, and the Expedition of Commodore Porter; also, Those Committed on the Brig Mexican, Who Were Tried and Executed at Boston, in 1835Strong, Ezra Baldwin

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The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates; Their Trials and Executions: Including a Correct Account of the Late Piracies Committed in the West-Indies, and the Expedition of Commodore Porter; also, Those Committed on the Brig Mexican, Who Were Tried and Executed at Boston, in 1835

Name: The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates; Their Trials and Executions: Including a Correct Account of the Late Piracies Committed in the West-Indies, and the Expedition of Commodore Porter; also, Those Committed on the Brig Mexican, Who Were Tried and Executed at Boston, in 1835
Author: Strong, Ezra Baldwin

Strong, Ezra Baldwin

Atlantic Coast (U.S.) -- History, Naval; Buccaneers -- Biography; Buccaneers -- History; Caribbean Area -- History, Naval; Pirates -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.) -- Biography; Pirates -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.) -- History; Pirates -- Caribbean Area -- Biography; Pirates -- Caribbean Area -- History; Private

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[Illustration: FRONTISPIECE.]

                                  THE
                                HISTORY
                                 OF THE
                       LIVES AND BLOODY EXPLOITS
                                 OF THE
                               MOST NOTED
                                PIRATES;
                                 THEIR
                         Trials and Executions.
                   INCLUDING A CORRECT ACCOUNT OF THE
                             LATE PIRACIES
 COMMITTED IN THE WEST-INDIES, AND THE EXPEDITION OF COMMODORE PORTER;
 ALSO, THOSE COMMITTED ON THE BRIG MEXICAN, WHO WERE TRIED AND EXECUTED
                          AT BOSTON, IN 1835.

           “Omne tulit punctum, qui miscuit utile dulci”—HOR.

           Embellished with Engravings from Original Designs.

[Illustration: The Ship Speaker taken by the Pirates.—Page 112.]

                               HARTFORD:
                    PUBLISHED BY SILAS ANDRUS & SON

Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1836, by Ezra Strong,
in the Clerk’s office of the State of Connecticut.

Stereotyped by Shepard, Oliver and Company, Boston.

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