The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-11
FAMOUS PIRATE
DIED IN BATTLE
Terror of Coast Blackboard Met
Master in Fierce Combat, With
No Quarter Given.
((Boston Journal.)

All the world has heard of BLACK
/ beard" the English sailor, who, after
| having been a highly respected officer
in his majesty's navy, turned pirate
and raised the black flag against every
thing afloat. This notorious sea robber
whose real name was Teach, 1 believe
| took his pseudonym from the fact that
he wore a very heavy black beard
which he was in the habit of doing up in
two large braids and tying them VI
behind his ears, writes Rev, Thomas B.
Gregory in the BlueJacket. He was a
man OF gigantic proportions and of sur
passing strength. His heart was as
cruel as that of a tiger. Every now
and then, when there was nothing else
in sight, he would shoot one or two OF
his own men, just to keep his practice
up
In the early days of the eighteenth
century Blackboard patroled the waters
of Europe, but it finally became too hot
/ for him there, and he struck for the
coasts of North America How well he
Piled his trade in the new field is evil
denced by the fact that from Nova
Scotia to Florida he succeeded in MAX
ing his name a mortal terror.
In captured ship of forty guns he
entered Charleston harbor and held the
town tor large ransom. From Charles
ton he passed into the waters of North
Carolina, plunderfng and Staying right
and left, and in their distress the Tar
Heels, being unable to get aid from
their own governor, Eden, appealed to
Governor Spotswood of Virginia to re-
lieve them of the terrible pirate who
was making their lives living hell
SpotswoOd did not listen to the appeal
in vain. Looking for some one to put
a quietUs upon Blackboard, he found
the person he wanted in one Robert
Maynard, young officer on his majes-
tvs ship Pearl, which happened to be
lying at the time in Chesapeake bay.
Manning a couple of small craft with
some sixty resolute men, Maynard set
out early in November, 171s, in search
of Blackboard, and on the 21st of the
same month found him at Ocracoke in
let, North Carolina Blackboard did not
know what fear was; young Maynard
was as full of fight as a hungry wild
cat, and the ball opened at once. Fhe
dancing was to the tune Of mo quar-
terri For over three hours MAYNARD
and his sixty men fought the pirate and
his fifty associates.
Blackboard sDTang to the rail Of his
ship, and, Selling a bottle of whisky.
drank from it and shouted, Domination
seize NY SOui IL L give you any quarter
OF take any from your Il neither ask
nor will 1 give you any quarter" roared
Maynard.
In the shallow waters of the Carolina
sound the pirates ship grounded, and
Maynard made for her. intending to
board her in the final death grapple, but
as the two vessels came together Black
beard anticipated his intended move
ment and jumped aboard of him with
sixteen of his followers. Maynard had
but thirteen men left by this time, but
with these ne tackled the sixteen pi-
rates and their desperate leader.
crossing swords with Blackboard,
Maynard succeeded in dealing him a
death thrust i'm the throat, and in the
meantime his men had killed or wound
ed all of Blackbeard,s followers.
With the sea robbers head swinging
by its long black hair from the bowsprit
of his little craft, Maynard sailed back
to Virginia to receive the congratuIa-
tons OF the governor and the loving
thanks of jewellers along the American
sedbOard.