Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-06-25
PIRATES OF CAROLINA.
The Freebooters Who Infested Our Shores
Their Daring Deeds of
LawleSSnesS.
BLACKBOARD MEETS AIS MATCH
The Desperate Fight Which ENDS
This Famous Pirates
Career
LawleSSneSS.

with the same trouble that then
annoyed their southern sisters.
Only a few years before that
time, in 1905, Captain Kidd had
become a pirate and a terror to
the northern seas Before
b e CO ming freebooter he
was a sort of privateer, a kind of
sea rover, neither fish, flesh, nor
foul. 1t is a very short step
from privateering to piracy, and
Captain Kidd was not a man to
strain at a gnat.
When the depredations of the
corsairs all along the Atlantic
coast became unbearable, Kidd,
with a strong feet arrived with
a royal commission, and stoutly
supported by all the northern
colonies, was sent against them,
on the theory that it takes a
rogue to catch other rogues. He
went out with great gusto to
chastise the lawbreakers, but be-
came dazzled by the opportunity
thus thrust upon him, and be-
came a freebooter himself. Great
ing more terror among sailors
than all previous corsairs had
done
He roamed over the seas both
along the shores of the English
colonies and among the Spani-
ards OF the far south. With
cargoes of rich spoil from the
Spanish Main and the West In
dies, he would sail into the port
of Boston and dispose of them
with the proverbial lavishness
of a freebooter. On board his
vessels were the sumptous lux
uries of the tropics, the gaudy
tappings of the Spanish mobiles,
and the precious gems from the
Brazilian mines. In consequence
of his liEerality in handling
stolen goods and bestowing them
upon others, he was gladly re-
ceived by many New England
people whenever he chose to
dwell in their midst The great
outlaw was finally captured
while walking along a street in
Boston, and soon thereafter paid
the penalty of his high handed
deeds. His capture broke up to
large extent the bands Of
northern pirates, but those OF
the south still remained as a
menace to all traffic by sea.
At last something like an or
ganized effort was made to break
up the gang of desperadoes that
prowled about the seas. Cap
tain Wood Rogers, brave and
trusted officer of the kings navy,
was sent against them with a
feet of sufficient size to strike
| terror into the hearts Of the
freebooters. He came to the is
land of Providence in the Baha>
mas, wqere Teach and his gang
had fixed their headquarters
AS Rogers approached and was
about to open fire upon them
the whole of the band except
Iabout ninety hoisted the white
flag, claiming the royal pardon
which had been extended shortly
before to all who would return
to their duties as law abiding
citizens. Blackboard and his
Ilieutenants wit h their crew:
were not present and thus es'
capped. The nest was not brok
en- up. 1t was merely shifted te
North Carolina. The ninet,
that refused amnesty and hae
escaped the clutches of Roger
soon joined their forces with
Blackboard, and coming to thu
coast of North Carolina, took III
their headquarters in the Cap'
Fear river with other places o
rendezvous i'll the Pamlico rive
and sound. There were no peo
pie living on the Cape Fea
river at that time, for Sir Johl
Yeamans' colony that settled
there years before had remove
to South Carolina. The re
mains of their settlement fur
nished shelter and te1nporar.
, homes for the pirates.
In their new quarters the
seemed to put on new life and t
: follow their nefarious calm
with more vindictiveness tha
ever. For some cause Captai
: Rogers had not followed then
= but had hoisted sail aud gon
5 back to England leaving th
pirates masters of the sea. 500
( thereafter, Governor Robe'
r Johnson, of South Carolina. too
: matters into his own hands an
resolved to chastise the but
i cancers. Accordingly he ser