Avery, Henry [known as Captain John Avery] (bap. 1659, d. 1696
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Avery, Henry [known as Captain John Avery] (bap. 1659, d. 1696?), pirate
David Cordingly
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Barry, Lording (bap. 1580, d. 1629), playwright and pirate
David Kathman
Barry, Lording (bap. 1580, d. 1629), playwright and pirate, was baptized on 17 April 1580 in St Laurence Pountney, St Laurence Pountney Lane, London, the fifth of eleven children of Nicholas Barry (d. 1607), citizen and fishmonger, and his second wife, Anne (...
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Bedloe, William (1650–1680)
Maker: Robert White
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William Bedloe (1650–1680) by Robert White, pubd 1681 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Bedloe, William (1650–1680), informer and adventurer
Alan Marshall
Bedloe, William (1650–1680), informer and adventurer, was the second son of Isaac Bedloe (d. 1656). William Bedloe was born in Chepstow on 20 May 1650 and spent his early life both there and in Bristol. Much of his early life was deliberately clouded in obscurity. His own published account of his parentage and ancestry remains dubious. He claimed that his father had been a gentleman soldier who had served the king in the civil wars and whose own father was ...
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Blennerhasset, Harman (1764–1831), lawyer and settler in America
T. F. Henderson
revised by Elizabeth Baigent
Blennerhasset, Harman (1764–1831), lawyer and settler in America, born in Hampshire on 8 October 1764, was the youngest of the three sons of Conway Blennerhasset (1720–1792) of Conway Castle, Killorglin, co. Kerry, Ireland, and his wife, Elizabeth Lacy (1724–1808), the daughter of ...
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Blood, Thomas (1617/18–1680), adventurer and spy
Alan Marshall
Blood, Thomas (1617/18–1680), adventurer and spy, was born at Sarney, co. Meath. His early life is obscure, but it was later claimed that his father (who was possibly Neptune Blood) was a blacksmith and ironworker, 'serious, honest and of no inferior credit...
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Blood, Thomas (1617/18–1680)
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Thomas Blood (1617/1818–1680) by unknown artist The Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge
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Bond, William (d. 1576)
See Bond, Martin
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Bonnet, Stede (d. 1718), pirate
Robert C. Ritchie
Bonnet, Stede (d. 1718), pirate, may have been a soldier as he was given the title of major during his trial, where he was also treated as an educated gentleman by the officers of the court. The most that can at present be said about his family is that he is probably the ...
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Bonny, Anne (1698–1782), pirate
David Cordingly
Bonny, Anne (1698–1782), pirate, was born near Cork in Ireland. Evidence from her descendants suggests that she was the illegitimate daughter of William Cormac, lawyer, and his maidservant. Cormac, who raised his daughter as a boy, found his legal practice so affected by his affair that he decided to go abroad. Taking ...
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Buckley, William (1780–1856), convict and settler in Australia
Richard Broome
Buckley, William (1780–1856), convict and settler in Australia, was born at Marton, near Macclesfield, Cheshire, the son of small farmers. He learned to read at evening school before being apprenticed as a bricklayer. At nineteen he enlisted in the local militia, then the ...
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Crab, John (c. 1280–c. 1352), pirate and merchant
Elizabeth Ewan
Crab, John (c. 1280–c. 1352), pirate and merchant, was probably born in Muiden in Flanders. Active as a pirate from at least 1306, he was the most notorious of the Flemish privateers who preyed on English shipping during the Scottish War of Independence. His nephew ...
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Dampier, William (1651–1715), buccaneer and explorer
Joel H. Baer
Dampier, William (1651–1715), buccaneer and explorer, was born in August and baptized on 5 September 1651 at East Coker, Somerset, the second of six children of tenant farmers George Dampier (1618?–1658) and his wife, Anne (d. 1665).
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Dampier, William (1651–1715)
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William Dampier (1651–1715) by Thomas Murray, c. 1697–8 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Drake, Sir Francis (1540–1596), pirate, sea captain, and explorer
Harry Kelsey
Drake, Sir Francis (1540–1596), pirate, sea captain, and explorer, was born about February or March 1540 in Crowndale, near Tavistock, Devon, the eldest of five known children of Edmund Drake (d. 1566) of Tavistock. Edmund's wife is unknown, though she may have been named ...
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Drake, Sir Francis (1540–1596)
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Sir Francis Drake (1540–1596) by Jodocus Hondius? © Copyright The British Museum
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Duston [née Emerson], Hannah (1657–1736?), captive of American Indians
Carol Berkin
Duston [née Emerson], Hannah (1657–1736
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Eustace the Monk (c. 1170–1217), Benedictine monk, sea captain, and pirate
D. A. Carpenter
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Eustace the Monk (c. 1170–1217), Benedictine monk, sea captain, and pirate, was the son of Baudoin Busket, a lord of the county of Boulogne. According to his biography, Eustace studied black magic in Toledo, returned home to become a monk at the abbey of ...
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