Eventually he retired to France where he married a woman of nobility and became the Marquis of Savoy. Or perhaps she was the daughter of Sir Hugh O'Connor of Connaught, whom the Irish deemed a traitor for siding with the English. She sailed from Ireland either to visit her aunt, the abbess of a French convent, or to escape a threat of death or kidnapping from Irishmen bent on reeking vengeance on her father. Dutch pirates captured her ship, and shortly thereafter, Easton captured the Dutch. Sheila fell in love with one of Easton's navigators, Gilbert Pike, and married him ten days later.
Legend also says that their child was the first European born in Newfoundland.
Whatever the truth behind the legend, one thing should be noted. Pike in 1602, Easton was not a pirate. When he turned to piracy a year later, Pike resigned from Easton's crew. Another pirate who followed in Easton's wake was John Nutt. He first appeared in Newfoundland around 1620.