Born at Rhode Island in 1794, he was brought up on a farm there. Ran away to sea in the United States sloop-of-war _Harriet_. Was in action off Pernambuco against H.M.S. _Peacock_, afterwards serving with credit on board the _Chesapeake_ in her famous fight with the _Shannon_; but after his release from Dartmoor as a prisoner of war he opened a grocery shop in Ann Street, called the "Tin Pot," "a place full of abandoned women and dissolute fellows." Drinking up all the profits, he was compelled to go to sea again, and got a berth on a South American privateer. Gibbs led a mutiny, seized the ship and turned her into a pirate, and cruised about in the neighbourhood of Havana, plundering merchant vessels along the coast of Cuba. He slaughtered the crews of all the ships he took. In 1819 returned to private life in New York with 30,000 dollars in gold. Taking a pleasure trip to Liverpool, he was entrapped by a designing female and lost all his money. In 1830 he took to piracy once more and shipped as a seaman in the brig _Vineyard_ (Captain W. Thornby), New Orleans to Philadelphia, with a cargo of cotton, molasses, and 54,000 dollars in specie. Gibbs again brought about a mutiny, murdering the captain and mate. After setting fire to and scuttling the ship, the crew took to their boats, landing at Barrow Island, where they buried their money in the sand. He was hanged at New York as recently as 1831. GIDDENS, PAUL. One of Captain Quelch's crew. Tried at Boston in 1704. GIDDINGS, JOHN. Of York River, Virginia. One of Captain Pound's crew. Wounded and taken prisoner at Tarpaulin Cove in 1689. GILBERT, CAPTAIN. Commanded the schooner _Panda_. On September 20th, 1832, he took and plundered a Salem brig, the _Mexican_, on her way from Salem to Rio de Janeiro. A few months later Gilbert and his crew were captured by Captain Trotter, of H.M. brig-of-war _Curlew_, and taken as prisoners to Salem and handed over to the United States authorities. Tried at Boston in December, 1834. Hanged at the same place on June 11th, 1835. This was the last act of piracy committed upon the Atlantic Ocean. GILLAM, CAPTAIN JAMES, _alias_ KELLY. A notorious pirate. When serving on board the East Indiaman _Mocha_, he led a mutiny, and with his own hands murdered the commander, Captain Edgecomb, in his sleep. He came back to America with Captain Kidd, and was hiding, under the name of Kelly, when caught in 1699 at Charleston, opposite Boston, by the Governor of Massachusetts, who described him as "the most impudent, hardened villain I ever saw." It was said that Gillam had entered the service of the Mogul, turned Mohammedan, and been circumcised. To settle this last point, the prisoner was examined by a surgeon and a Jew, who both declared, on oath, that it was so. GILLS, JOHN. One of Captain Teach's crew. Hanged in Virginia in 1718. GLASBY, HARRY.