One of Captain Heidon's crew of the pirate ship _John of Sandwich_, wrecked on Alderney Island in 1564. Was arrested and hanged at St. Martin's Point, Guernsey, in the same year. [Illustration: ANN BONNY AND MARY READ, CONVICTED OF PIRACY, NOVEMBER 28, 1720, AT A COURT OF VICE-ADMIRALTY HELD AT ST. JAGO DE LA VEGA IN THE ISLAND OF JAMAICA. To face p. 256.] RHOADE, CAPTAIN JOHN. A Dutch coasting pilot of Boston. In 1674 appointed chief pilot to the Curacao privateer _Flying Horse_, and sailed along the coast of Maine and as far north as the St. John River. Afterwards attacked and plundered several small English craft occupied in bartering furs with the Indians. Condemned to be hanged at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in June, 1675. RICE, DAVID. Welsh pirate. Of Bristol. Taken out of the Cornwall galley by Captain Roberts, he served in the _Royal Fortune_. Tried and found guilty of piracy and condemned to death, but was reprieved and sold to the Royal African Company to serve for seven years in their plantations. RICE, OWEN. Welsh pirate. Of South Wales. Hanged at the age of 27 at Rhode Island in 1723. One of Captain Charles Harris's crew. RICHARDS, LIEUTENANT. Lieutenant to Blackbeard on board the _Queen Ann's Revenge_. Cruised in the West Indies and along the coast of Carolina and Virginia. In 1717 Teach blockaded the harbour at Charleston and sent Richards with a party of pirates to the Governor to demand a medicine chest and all necessary medical supplies, with a threat that if these were not forthcoming he would cut the throats of all his prisoners, many of them the leading merchants of the town. While waiting for the Governor's reply, Richards and his companions scandalized the towns-folk of Charleston by their outrageous and swaggering conduct. RICHARDSON, JOHN. His father was a goldsmith at New York. John, tiring of the trade of cooper, to which he was apprenticed, ran away to sea. For many years he served both in men-of-war and in merchant ships. Although an unmitigated blackguard, he did not commit piracy nor murder until some years later, when, being at Ancona, he met a Captain Benjamin Hartley, who had come there with a loading of pilchards. Richardson was taken on board to serve as ship's carpenter, and sailed for Leghorn. With another sailor called Coyle, Richardson concocted a mutiny, murdered the captain in the most brutal manner, and was appointed mate in the pirate ship. As a pirate Richardson was beneath contempt. His life ended on the gallows at Execution Dock on January 25th, 1738. RICHARDSON, NICHOLAS. One of Captain Quelch's crew. Taken out of the brigantine _Charles_, and tried for piracy at Boston in 1704. RIDGE, JOHN. Of London. One of Major Stede Bonnet's crew. Hanged in 1718 at Charleston, South Carolina. RINGROSE, BASIL. Buccaneer, pirate, and author.