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
THE HISTORY OF THE PIRATES.
CAPTAIN MISSON.
CAPTAIN JOHN BOWEN.
CAPTAIN ROBERT KIDD.
CAPTAIN TEW.
CAPTAIN JOHN HALSEY.
CAPTAIN THOMAS WHITE.
CAPTAIN CONDENT.
CAPTAIN BELLAMY.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM FLY.
CAPTAIN THOMAS HOWARD.
CAPTAIN LEWIS.
CAPTAIN JOHN CORNELIUS.
CAPTAIN DAVID WILLIAMS.
CAPTAIN SAMUEL BURGESS.
CAPTAIN NATHANIEL NORTH.
AN ACCOUNT
A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE PRISONERS EXECUTED.
A CORRECT ACCOUNT OF THE LATE PIRACIES COMMITTED IN THE WEST-INDIES;
AND THE EXPEDITION OF COMMODORE PORTER.
MUTINY ON BOARD THE BRITISH SHIP KATE.
LIST OF ATROCIOUS PIRACIES AND BARBARITIES.
U. S. BRIG SPARK.
PIRACY.
BRIG DOVER.
PIRATES CAPTURED.
LIEUT. ALLEN’S VICTORY AND DEATH.
PIRATES ENTRAPPED.
SAILING OF COMMODORE PORTER.
EXECUTION OF THE PIRATES.
PIRATES CAPTURED.
LAFITTE, THE NOTED PIRATE, KILLED.
BATTLE WITH THE PIRATES.
CAPTURE OF A PIRATICAL STATION IN CUBA.
PIRATES TAKEN AND EXECUTED.
CHARLES GIBBS.
PIRACIES ON THE BRIG MEXICAN.
THE
HISTORY
OF
THE PIRATES.
CAPTAIN MISSON.
Captain Misson was born in Provence, of an ancient family. His father
was master of a plentiful fortune; but having a great number of
children, our rover had but little hopes of other fortune than what he
could carve out for himself with his sword. His parents took care to
give him an education equal to his birth, and upon the completion of it
would have put him into the musketeers; but as he was of a roving
temper, and much affected with the accounts he had read in books of
travels, he chose the sea as a life which abounds with more variety, and
would afford him an opportunity to gratify his curiosity, by the change
of countries. Having made this choice, his father, with letters of
recommendation, and every thing fitting for him, sent him to volunteer
on board the Victoire, commanded by Monsieur Fourbin, his relation. He
was received on board with all possible regard by the Captain, whose
ship was at Marseilles, and was ordered to cruise soon after Misson’s
arrival. Nothing could be more agreeable to the inclinations of our
volunteer than this cruise, which made him acquainted with the most
noted ports in the Mediterranean, and gave him a great insight into the
practical part of navigation. He grew fond of this life, and was
resolved to be a complete sailor, which made him always one of the first
on a yard arm, either to hand or reef, and very inquisitive in the
different methods of working a ship: his discourse was turned on no
other subject, and he would often get the boatswain and carpenter to
teach him in their cabins the constituent parts of a ship’s hull, and
how to rig her, which he generously paid them for; and though he spent a
great part of his time with these two officers, yet he behaved himself
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