"Edward Neville (pirate) Edward Neville (fl 1675-1678) was an English buccaneer and pirate. He is best known for joining George Spurre to raid Spanish Campeche. After England withdrew from the Franco-Dutch War in 1674, Neville accepted a French privateering commission to sail against Spain. Jamaican Governor John Vaughan tried to recall English privateers to maintain England’s neutrality in the continuing war but had little success. In 1675 he accused legendary buccaneer Henry Morgan – now pardoned, and promoted to become Vaughan’s own Deputy Governor – of writing to Neville and other privateers, promising them pardons and freedom. Morgan wrote, “and"
"under Elias Watts, who secured a commission from Col. William Brayne, acting as military Governor on Jamaica, to serve as ""Governor"" of Tortuga. In 1660 the English appointed a Frenchman Jeremie Deschamps as Governor who proclaimed the King of France, set up French colours, and defeated several English attempts to reclaim the island. By 1670 the buccaneer era was in decline, and many of the pirates turned to log cutting and wood trading as a new income source. At this time a Welsh privateer named Henry Morgan started to promote himself and invited the pirates on the island of Tortuga"
"Thomas Freeman (pirate) Thomas Freeman (fl 1655-1680) was an English buccaneer and pirate active in the Caribbean. He is best known for attacking the Spanish alongside Henry Morgan, David Marteen, and John Morris. Freeman arrived on Jamaica in 1655 as part of Oliver Cromwell’s invasion force, remaining there for the next several years. Freeman obtained a privateering commission against the Spanish from Lord Windsor, the Governor of Jamaica, and may have used it to join Christopher Myngs’ sack of Santiago de Cuba and Campeche in 1662-1663. In 1664 he joined with John Morris, Henry Morgan, David Marteen, and Jacob Fackman"
"John Callis (pirate) John Callis (or Calles) (died 1576) was a 16th-century Welsh pirate. He was active in South Wales from Cardiff to Haverfordwest, often selling his prizes and cargo in the villages of Laugharne and Carew in Milford Haven, only a few miles south of Little Newcastle, Wales. His piratical career lasted for decades before pressure from neighbouring countries forced to English government to take action and managed to capture him in 1576. The elderly pirate attempted to assist authorities in tracking down other pirates in exchange for his release, however the authorities refused his offer and he was"
"Jacob Fackman Jacob Fackman (fl. 1662-1666) was an English buccaneer and pirate active in the Caribbean. He is best known for attacking the Spanish alongside Henry Morgan, John Morris, and David Marteen. Fackman may have arrived in Jamaica with Cromwell's 1655 invasion force alongside fellow future buccaneer (and partner) Thomas Freeman. Before moving to Jamaica, Fackman was a resident of Barbados. He is recorded as employing several indentured English and Welsh servants there as early as 1655. Fackman first took out a privateering commission against the Spanish from the Governor of Jamaica in late 1662. In his frigate ""Cagway"" he"
"Francis Witherborn Francis Witherborn (fl. 1670-1672) was an English buccaneer, privateer, and pirate active in the Caribbean. He is best known for his brief association with Henry Morgan. Witherborn initially sailed with Henry Morgan’s fleet in attacks against Spanish cities in Central America. He was part of Morgan’s flotilla during their 1670 assault on Panama along with a number of other prominent buccaneers. By 1671 new Jamaican Governor Thomas Lynch moved to curtail privateering against the Spanish, offering pardons to privateers who surrendered and hunting down those who refused. After parting with Morgan, Witherborn took command of the barque ""Charity"","
"with Spain – they insisted that “having been out 22 months and hearing nothing of the cessation betwixt the King and the Spaniard” they had been sailing under Windsor’s old privateering commissions and had no idea Spanish cities were off-limits. Freeman used the proceeds from the raids to purchase a tavern in Port Royal. He later became a Colonel with the Jamaican militia and joined the Jamaican Council alongside future Governor Hender Molesworth and the recently knighted Henry Morgan. Thomas Freeman (pirate) Thomas Freeman (fl 1655-1680) was an English buccaneer and pirate active in the Caribbean. He is best known"
"John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery KB, PRS (baptised 8 July 1639 – 12 January 1713), styled Lord Vaughan from 1643 to 1686, was Governor of Jamaica between 1675–1678. He was the second son of Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Carbery, and his second wife Frances (c.1621 – 9 October 1650), daughter of Sir John Altham of Oxhey, Watford, Hertfordshire. He inherited his title and the Carmarthenshire estate (Golden Grove) in 1686 on the death of his father. His elder brother Francis had already died. He was invested as a Knight, Order of the"
"Nathaniel Grubing Nathaniel Grubing (fl. 1692-1697) was an English pirate who sailed in service to the French. He is best known for leading several raids on Jamaica before his capture. Grubing was English and Jamaica-born but sailed for the French after the outbreak of King William's War, as did many other English sailors – Jacobites and Catholics, debtors, and privateers dissatisfied with England’s discouragement of privateering. Jamaica’s Governor Beeston wrote, “Among the chief of these rogues was one Grubbin, who was born here of English parents, and who knowing every part of the Island had done much mischief by landing"
"Peter Beckford Colonel Peter Beckford (1643–1710) was acting Governor of Jamaica in 1702. Peter was the son of another Peter Beckford, of Maidenhead, England. Sir Thomas Beckford, Sheriff of London was his uncle, as was Captain Richard Beckford, who was trading in Jamaica from 1659. England had invaded the island in 1655 and the Colony of Jamaica proved a lucrative business proposition for Englishmen who wished to create sugar plantations there. In 1662, Peter Beckford emigrated to the island, taking with him two or three enslaved Africans, and engaged himself as hunter and horse catcher. Having served as a seaman,"
"sloop. Ashworth was still privateering as of 1719 but there are few records of his activities beyond that point, though his brother Jasper Ashworth settled near Port Royal, married, and became a regional official. Leigh Ashworth Leigh Ashworth (fl. 1716-1719) was a pirate and privateer operating in the Caribbean in the early 1700s. Leigh Ashworth was captain of a sloop named ""Mary"", originally outfitted for privateering with a commission from Jamaican governor Lord Archibald Hamilton. Alongside Henry Jennings, James Carnegie, and Samuel Liddell, they took a pair of French vessels in early 1716 in the Bay of Hounds. They also"
"Nicholas Lawes Sir Nicholas Lawes (1652 – 18 June 1731) (sometimes ""'Laws'"" in contemporary documents) was Governor of Jamaica from 1718 to 1722. Nicholas Lawes was born in 1672 to Nicholas and Amy Lawes. He was a British knight. He was Chief Justice of Jamaica from 1698 to 1703 and Governor from 1718 to 1722. In his capacity as Governor during the Golden Age of Piracy he hunted down or tried many pirates, among them ""Calico Jack"" Rackham, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Robert Deal, Captain Thompson, Nicholas Brown, and Charles Vane. He signed an arrangement with Jeremy, king of the"
"there is a daily journal in the handwriting of Sir William Beeston of seven voyages made by him from 10 December 1671 to 28 June 1702. Sir William Beeston's daughter, Jane, married, first, Sir Thomas Modyford, bart., and, secondly, Charles Long, to whom she was second wife. William Beeston (governor) Sir William Beeston (born 1636, fl. 1702) was an English political and legal figure, lieutenant-governor of Jamaica. Beeston was born at Tichfield, Hampshire, being second son of William Beeston of Posbrook, by Elizabeth, daughter of Arthur Bromfield. His elder brother, Trevinni, was master of Winchester School and warden of New"
"John Graham (pirate) John Graham (fl. 1683-1686, last name also Grayham) was an English pirate active off New England and the African coast. A merchant captain operating out of Port Royal, Jamaica in June 1683 reported being captured by Graham, and traveled to Boston to deliver a deposition against him. Jamaican Governor Thomas Lynch wrote a year later that Graham was not from Jamaica but was “chief pirate” among the locals. “Doctor John Graham” was recorded as a ship’s doctor aboard a vessel which left Jamaica in 1684 on a trading and privateering mission. Graham led a mutiny, marooning the"
"Attribution Sir Charles Lyttelton, 3rd Baronet Sir Charles Lyttelton, 3rd Baronet (1628 – 2 May 1716) was an English Governor of Jamaica, an army officer and MP from the Lyttelton family. Charles Lyttelton was born the second son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 1st Baronet of Hagley Hall, Worcestershire. He fought in the royalist army and escaped to France in 1648. He was made cupbearer to Charles II in 1650 while in exile and after the Restoration knighted in 1662. He was governor of Jamaica from 1662 until 1664 and founded the first town of Port Royal where he summoned the"
"Sir Charles Lyttelton, 3rd Baronet Sir Charles Lyttelton, 3rd Baronet (1628 – 2 May 1716) was an English Governor of Jamaica, an army officer and MP from the Lyttelton family. Charles Lyttelton was born the second son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 1st Baronet of Hagley Hall, Worcestershire. He fought in the royalist army and escaped to France in 1648. He was made cupbearer to Charles II in 1650 while in exile and after the Restoration knighted in 1662. He was governor of Jamaica from 1662 until 1664 and founded the first town of Port Royal where he summoned the first"
"Logwood together. Robert Searle Robert Searle (alias John Davis) was one of the earliest and most active of the English buccaneers on Jamaica. Nothing, to date, is known of his early life. The famous buccaneer chronicler, Esquemeling, states that Searle was “born at Jamaica,” but this seems unlikely, since that island did not become an English dominion until 1655. Searle's career as a “gentleman of fortune” was marred by frequent quarrels with Sir Thomas Modyford, royal governor of Jamaica, who usually befriended buccaneers. Searle's first known ship was the 60-ton, 8-gun ""Cagway"", the largest of four Spanish merchantmen captured by"
"pirate articles preserved from the 17th and 18th centuries, and one of only two complete sets from the 17th century (the other belonging to Nicholas Clough). As reported, they read: George Cusack George Cusack (fl. 1668-1675) was an Irish pirate active in northern Europe and the West Indies in the late 17th century. Cusack served as a gunner and sailor on several ships but his attempts at mutiny landed him in Marshalsea prison for a time. On his release in 1668 he traveled to Cadiz and signed aboard the ""Hopewell"" out of Tangier as a gunner. He and several associates"
"Port Royal. The raid on Panama led to the arrest of Morgan after his arrival in Port Royal. Morgan was later released, and neither Collier nor anyone else seemed to be subject to arrest by colonial authorities. He later became a wealthy gentleman farmer retiring to his plantation in Jamaica, presented to him in 1668. He would spend his later years preparing defenses against a possible foreign invasion against Jamaica until his death. Edward Collier (pirate) Edward Collier was an English buccaneer who served as Sir Henry Morgan's second-in-command throughout much of his expeditions against Spain during the mid-17th century."
"Casse demanded Grubing’s return and threatened a captured English Captain named Price in return. Beeston was not swayed: “that shall not hinder me from causing Grubbin to suffer whatever the law may condemn him in, nor do I think that Mons. Ducasse will venture to do anything to an innocent man for the punishment of a criminal.” Nathaniel Grubing Nathaniel Grubing (fl. 1692-1697) was an English pirate who sailed in service to the French. He is best known for leading several raids on Jamaica before his capture. Grubing was English and Jamaica-born but sailed for the French after the outbreak"
"Howell Davis Howell Davis (ca. 1690 – 19 June 1719), also known as Hywel and/or Davies, was a Welsh pirate. His piratical career lasted just 11 months, from 11 July 1718 to 19 June 1719, when he was ambushed and killed. His ships were the ""Cadogan"", ""Buck"", ""Saint James"", and ""Rover"". Davis captured 15 known English and French ships. Born in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales, Davis started out in piracy on 11 July 1718 when the slave ship ""Cadogan"", on which he was serving as a mate, was captured by the pirate Edward England. Deciding to join the pirates, Davis"
"and Gibraltar, the last record of Dempster’s buccaneering. Edward Dempster Edward Dempster (fl 1667-1669) was a buccaneer and privateer active in the Caribbean. He is best known for his association with Henry Morgan. Dempster received a commission as a privateer from Governor of Jamaica Thomas Modyford in 1667. Sailing his frigate ""Relief"" against the Spanish under his privateering commission, he captured the ship ""Nuestra Seora de la Concepción y San José"" off Campeche. His prize was confirmed upon his return to Jamaica, where the ship and its cargo were sold to future Governor Hender Molesworth. It was renamed ""Crescent"" and"
"Joseph Bannister Joseph Bannister was a notorious English pirate who operated in the Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy, best known for defeating two Royal Navy warships in battle. Bannister was a well-respected merchant captain in the mid-late 17th century. He became captain of and was tasked with making transatlantic voyages, delivering goods on the profitable route between London and Jamaica. In June 1684, Bannister ran away with the ship and its thirty to forty guns, picked up a hundred men to serve as his crew, and began his career as a pirate, based in Port Royal, Jamaica. Bannister"
"runaway slaves. In 1670 he was ""Governor of His Majesty's Island of Jamaica Commander-in-Chief of all His Majesties Forces within the said Island and in the Islands adjacent Vice-Admiral to His Royal Highness the Duke of York in the American Seas"", according to the commission to Henry Morgan to make war upon the Spanish. The issuance of the aforementioned privateer commission to Morgan, who used it to attack and plunder the Spanish possession of Panama, resulted in revocation of Modyford's governorship and arrest in 1671. King Charles II of England, in desperate need of Spain as an ally in an"
"Robert Searle Robert Searle (alias John Davis) was one of the earliest and most active of the English buccaneers on Jamaica. Nothing, to date, is known of his early life. The famous buccaneer chronicler, Esquemeling, states that Searle was “born at Jamaica,” but this seems unlikely, since that island did not become an English dominion until 1655. Searle's career as a “gentleman of fortune” was marred by frequent quarrels with Sir Thomas Modyford, royal governor of Jamaica, who usually befriended buccaneers. Searle's first known ship was the 60-ton, 8-gun ""Cagway"", the largest of four Spanish merchantmen captured by Sir Christopher"
"1715, pirates launched a major raid on Spanish divers trying to recover gold from a sunken treasure galleon near Florida. The nucleus of the pirate force was a group of English ex-privateers, all of whom would soon be enshrined in infamy: Henry Jennings, Charles Vane, Samuel Bellamy, and Edward England. The attack was successful, but contrary to their expectations, the governor of Jamaica refused to allow Jennings and their cohorts to spend their loot on his island. With Kingston and the declining Port Royal closed to them, Jennings and his comrades founded a new pirate base at Nassau, on the"
"he took and are now in gaol.” Jonathan Barnet Jonathan Barnet (fl. 1715–1720) was an English privateer active in the Caribbean. He is best known for capturing pirates Calico Jack, Anne Bonney, and Mary Read. Lord Archibald Hamilton, Governor of Jamaica, commissioned ten privateers in late 1715 and charged them with hunting pirates. Among them was Barnet, who sailed out in his 90-ton snow ""Tyger"". The ""Tyger’s"" owners and Barnet posted bond before he sailed. Barnet’s six-month commission was periodically renewed by Hamilton and succeeding Governors. Hamilton gave Barnet specific instructions on which flag to fly, on keeping a journal,"
"Carnegie the captured ship, and in trade gave the French captain Carnegie’s ""Discovery"". Carnegie and Ashworth later had to intervene when the group’s combined crews began arguing over division of spoils. Records do not indicate what happened to Carnegie afterwards. James Carnegie (pirate) James Carnegie (fl. 1716) was a pirate active in the Caribbean. He is best known for sailing alongside Henry Jennings. In March 1716 Henry Jennings, fresh from looting a Spanish treasure fleet which had wrecked the previous year, was granted a privateering commission from Governor Archibald Hamilton of Jamaica. Accompanying him would be fellow captains Samuel Liddell"
"the handover by a variety of pretexts, and Marlborough was forced to land the garrison troops sent with him on Anjadip Island and return home with his ships. He was in 1664 nominated as the next Governor of Jamaica but was shortly afterwards given command of the 70-gun second-rate ""Old James"" and was killed in 1665 at the Battle of Lowestoft attempting to recover a captured ship. He was succeeded by his uncle William. James Ley, 3rd Earl of Marlborough James Ley, 3rd Earl of Marlborough (28 January 1618 – 3 June 1665) was a British peer and Member of"
"George Cusack George Cusack (fl. 1668-1675) was an Irish pirate active in northern Europe and the West Indies in the late 17th century. Cusack served as a gunner and sailor on several ships but his attempts at mutiny landed him in Marshalsea prison for a time. On his release in 1668 he traveled to Cadiz and signed aboard the ""Hopewell"" out of Tangier as a gunner. He and several associates mutinied and seized the ship, setting the officers adrift in a rowboat. They renamed the vessel ""Valiant Prince"" and had a forced merchant draw up false papers for it. Cusack"
"Jonathan Barnet Jonathan Barnet (fl. 1715–1720) was an English privateer active in the Caribbean. He is best known for capturing pirates Calico Jack, Anne Bonney, and Mary Read. Lord Archibald Hamilton, Governor of Jamaica, commissioned ten privateers in late 1715 and charged them with hunting pirates. Among them was Barnet, who sailed out in his 90-ton snow ""Tyger"". The ""Tyger’s"" owners and Barnet posted bond before he sailed. Barnet’s six-month commission was periodically renewed by Hamilton and succeeding Governors. Hamilton gave Barnet specific instructions on which flag to fly, on keeping a journal, and where to bring captured prize ships"
"legislative assembly in 1664. He was a major of the yellow coated maritime regiment, the precursor of the Royal Marines, governor of Harwich and Landguard Fort at time of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, 1672. In his brother's lifetime he served as an army officer, rising to a Brigadier General and serving as Governor of Jamaica in 1663, of Harwich in 1667 and of Sheerness in 1680. He was joint Agent for Jamaica from 1682. He became Member of Parliament for Bewdley in 1685. He was M.P. for Bewdley from 1685 until 1689. He inherited the baronetcy and the family estates"
"a common pirate and mass murderer, protesting to no avail to the English government of Oliver Cromwell about his conduct. Because he had shared half of the bounty of his 1659 raid, about a quarter of a million pounds, with the buccaneers against the explicit orders of Edward D'Oyley, the English Commander of Jamaica, he was arrested for embezzlement and sent back to England in the ""Marston Moor"" in 1660. The Restoration government retained him in his command however, and in August 1662 he was sent to Jamaica commanding the ""Centurion"" in order to resume his activities as commander of"