Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-04-13
VINCENT VENUE.
CONFESSIONS OF GIBBS THE PIRATE

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CONFESSIONS OF GIBBS THE PIRATE
coNcLUDED.
| visited him again on the 18TH March. Al
that visit, nothing but conversation took place.
asked him many questions; he converted WIN
great freedom; repeated to me the vessels he hrst
Informed me had been robbed and destroyed
At this visit questioned him about the following
vessels, at the request of Mr.. Amos Butler, who
handed me list Of them, viZ:-Alary Augusta
from Antwerp to Mobile? said he had no recollec-
ton of her.
Dutch vessels from Europe far Curacao! To
this question he said that in the year 1929, a
Dutch ship and bark were taken oil the Bahama
Bank, and two days after they (the pirates run
in under the Moro Castle. Their vessel was a
privateer schooner, with Big Gun amidships
which they had under cover. After they had
been in port two days, two boats crews came IN
and said their vessel had been taken. oil the Ba-
hama Bank.
Providence Of Providence? Two times; once
from Liverpool to N. York, and once from Mo-
bile to N. York; stopped her once as Will be seen
by his first account
Br. Brig Lacoovsr, two years ago from Jama-
ca to st. Johns? Knew nothing of her.
Brig Transit. Elet, from Trinidad to New
York, two years ago? Knows nothing OF ~
Candace from Boston to Sumatra, in 1924,
robbed of Sis, 5000? Knows nothing of her
Topaz in 1923. from Calcutta, crew murdered?
Knows nothing ether.
[ then left him, under the promise that would
come and sec him again. He set the following
Wednesday week.
again visited him on Wednesday morning,
Esd March, and then told him expected all he
4 l,<,t anIa i had lISf
of the various vessels he said had been plundered
and the crews murdered, wished him to 60 on
and repeat them again, s. such others as he could
recollect. Here follows the account, as given
this day:
Brig William, OF n. Y, Vessei ana crew oes-
trOyed.
Bark Larkn, Of London do DO
Brig Belyedere, of Boston do 10
Ship Indispensable, of London do do
Ship Earl of Moria, of London do do
Two French briggs, on Bahama Banks do
A Geuoese brig. from Straits do 40
A N York brig name forgotten do DO
A French ship from Europe do DO
Dutch Ship. on S. Cuba, cargo dry goods DO
Dutch ship Dido do DO
Do brig from Europe do DO
Providence of Providence, took out $40, 900,
and let her pass because the crew were his towns
men.
Bark Transit, in year 1924 or %, cargo mo-
lasses, vessel and cargo destroyed.
Dutch ship from Curacao IN 1919, vessel and
cargo destroyed
Commenced in the year 1916, in the privateer
Maria, Capt. Bell, of the Port Of Margarita, in
the Island of Santa Martha. Capt. Bell was from
some where up North River, at or near Hudson.
Took the vessel from the officer, and set them on
shore at Pensacola.
The Picciana was sent to Cape Antonio for
them, from the Havana; wont tell by whom.
The ship that he mentioned as having been run
on shore at Cape Antonio, was the Caroline Of
Charleston, from Liverpool Gibbs afterwards
recollected that this ship was the Lucier.
then withdrew from the prison, and left Mer
rift with him.
When saw Merritt afterwards, he informed me
that Gibbs had given him an account OF himself
up to the time he commenced piracy.
Delivered to Mr.. Merritt, March S1St, 1851,
at the request Of Gibbs.
On one occasion Gibbs states that he crused
for more than three weeks off the Capes of the
Delaware, in the hope of falling in with the Re-
becca Sims, Philadelphia ship. hound for Can
ton. They knew that she would have large
quantity of specie on board, but they were disap-
pointed III tneir oooty. ihe SUPP Pdsseu uiem III
the night.
Sometime in the course of the year 1919, he
states that he left Havana and came to the Unit
ed States, bringing with him about $50, 900. He
passed several weeks in this city, and then went
to Boston, whence he took passage for Liverpool
in the ship Emerald. Before he sailed however,
he had squandered large part of his money by
dissipation and gambling. He remained in Liv-
erpool few months, and then returned to Bos-
ton IN the ship Topaz, Capt. Lewis. His resi-
dence in Liverpool at that time is satisfactorily
ascertained from another source besides his own
confession. A female now in this city was we'll
acquainted with him there, where, she says, he
means Of support. In speaking of bis acquaint-
ance with this female, he says 81 fell in with
woman, who thought was all virtue, but she de-
ceived me, and l am sorry to say that heart