The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-03-29
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Whit od my country unless
fl has bis oine here 81 Its story!
ID o5H ay ia aTgaed lthat pi
an industrial
iahc8ot s. i've community, but the
pirate % romance and life
romano
ans North Carolina had its
pifae lea carried on business
tlos ifs p6t where the American
coionie te Graded No better
plac fo5 pirate could ever be de
as eoast Of North Carolina
Il YOU happsa 70 iaye g map OF tne
sia aud 8ili look at the coast line
III alat tie NORTH Carolina
coast 6 ptactica1i without Q break fol
iyer p come 70 the sea tbs pc
eniiar Il basing a lining Of sounds in.
i5e coast From Virginia TO South
carolina a long succession Of narrow
Inland bodies Of water separates the
hnd nom tile ocean, and these in.
land bodies are united to the sea BY
ifie once inside an inlet the sounds
epen into rather respectable lakes
via arms and Jecaon extending in
ever direction The largest Of the
sounds d Abemarle, but into It sew
eraif 81 the other sounds open, SO that
"a uninterrupted stretch Of water
some two hundred miles from north
@ south, and half as much from east
y wes, 81 more than that counting
NJ broad river mouths, Is embraced
IA tbs iniaadssystem of water retreats.
Putting out from the sounds in all dt.
rections are baous, lagoons, coyes and
creeks and turns big and little, until
he navigator unfamiliar with the
ighborhood could no more NAVY
te Il then be could sail the waters
ii Jupiter II ANY are there
wonderful forests line the shores
aud gigantis cypress, gum and oak
tre meet oyer some Of the narrow
channels, Islands break the courses
and the routes are as many as on the
IN streets. where a man may turn
corner and take a new course at
eFety block. One of the chief inlapdss
AIbemarle Sound is Roanoke,w where
he hrs settlers coming from England
Is America located, There was the
beginning Of the United States. and
here our history starts.
some years after North Carolina
had been settled Albemarle sound
ine5 4 romantic name throughout
lie colonies from a notorious inhabi'
amt Of the Sound country named Ed
ard Teach, who was oftener referred
As aBIack Beard" Teach was a
pirate and many are the tales that
told Of his marauding expeditions
along the Atlantic coast AID the adj
ileent high seas. His retreat was with
Il de sound, which he reached
through the narrow passage known
a craeoke Inlet, and there to this
daS d cove, called Teach's Hole,
marks the territory which the old VII
iian made famous two centuries ago
Teach became a terror to the en-
lire coast, From a moderate begin
ming he sailed and plundered the
waters from the New England col
onies to the West Indies, numbering,
iooting, robblng and destroying until
Ky had secured a ship Of forty guns
And the stories that are told Of his
ady sntures would make your hair
ctirt Among the islands and swampa
d the Sound country 1t Is asserted
Teact buried treasure that would
ransom a prince, although a dispas'
ionafe review Of his wealth at this
\ distant date would rather indicate
Stht sf,e, most Of his burlug was done
from the end Of a brandy bottle, FOL
Teach was VIGOROUSLY dlssipated'
But he was a power, and during the
I To- D..
day Of the first George, who was King
81 england at that time, Teach had
gained such power on the eastern
coast Of America that the colonies
we're unable to defend themselves and
their shipping from his lawlessness,
Nothing was safe that yentured ouI
TO sea, and even the English authoFi'
~ was powerless to protect the set
tiers Of the colonies from this terror
ofthe Western ocean. In despair the
colonies attempted to end the trou
bies With Teach and his outfit by max
Ing peace instead Of trying to chase
him from the ocean by any threats Of
punishment. Accordingly the Kings
pardon was offered to all pirates who
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