Final project presentation on Pirates of New England

1. Pirates of New England
A brief look at the history of two
pirates off the New England Coast.
Presented by: Darlene A. Cobb
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2. Within this presentation I take a very brief glance at the history of
two pirates not so well known, but in fact were true pirates. In studying the
history of pirates I had to consider what was fact and what was fiction. In
doing so , what I thought was real was not and what I thought was make
believe actually was real.
Pirates to me are fantastical characters. They were people who
strived for a better life no matter what the cost. They were not always well
liked, but in reading about them, I look at them with a much different
perspective. Of course I have only touched the surface of their history. They
were cruel, heartless and greedy right? Ahh! What I discovered is that they
also had families, cared about their men and were Robin Hoods of the seas.
Some of the things that I bring to my presentation were items I
found interesting and some related to the pirates I researched.
I hope you enjoy my presentation !

3. Directions
• Because everyone reads at a different speed, I wanted to give you, the
viewer, the opportunity to control the timing of this presentation.
• Each slide is adjusted for you to click when you are ready to proceed.
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• On the next slide is a clip from one of my favorite movies, Pirates of the Caribbean: At
Worlds End.
• I felt it was important to share this clip because it gives a wonderful visual to what
Pirates looked like and what happened to them during the Privateering era.
• When naval ships were hired to round up these pirates and bring them at times to there
death.
To start the clip please click on the play button.
Enjoy!

4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8noyBWonGg&feature=related

5. Overview
• Introduction of Pirates along the Coast of New England.
• Robert Bartholomew
• Jolly Roger Flag
• William Kidd
• Original Book of Pirates 1724
• Samuel Bellamy
• Recent pictures taken at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, VT

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This painting was done by Mike Eagle and was found on the Mystic Seaport past exhibits page. At one time as a child, the
history of whaling, was introduced to me by a woman my grandmother knew who owned an inn in Edgartown. Edgartown is a
small town located on Martha's Vineyard, Cape Cod. As a child I spent my summers in Falmouth, Cape Cod with my
grandparents. Edgartown was my first exposure to the history of whaling and ships. Never did I dream as a child that there
were also Pirates along the coast of Cape Cod.

7. Pirate and Captain Bartholomew
Roberts also known as Black Bart.
This picture was taken from the
Smithsonian’s American History
Museum. It depicts him after he has
captured eleven slave ships.
“ On the Gold Coast and what was
sometimes called the Slave Coast,
the principal export was black
African slaves, who were shipped to
the plantations in North America and
the West Indies. It has been
calculated that during the eighty
years of its existence the Royal Africa
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Company alone delivered 100,000
slaves to the colonies. At the time of
Bartholomew Roberts’ raids along
the African coast, around 36,000
Africans were being transported
across the Atlantic each year from
the various trading post "states David
Cordingly author(231).

8. • Jolly Roger symbol of Black Beard and
eventually of all pirates.
In Under the Black Flag: The Romance and
Reality of Pirates, author David Cordingly
describes the use of flags as such, “ What
all the pirate flags had in common ….
applying to all pirates was their need to
strike terror in the minds of the merchant
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seamen who were their victims” (116).
Continuing Cordingly states, “Ship’s
captains sometimes used the symbol in
their logbooks when recording the deaths
of members of the crew”(116).

9. William Kidd aka.
Captain Kidd
• William Kidd born in Greenock, Scotland 1645.
• He eventually became a merchant sailor.
• In 1690 Kidd was an established sea captain and
ship owner in New York.
• He then received a royal commission to hunt
pirates.
• 1696 He took over the ship called, “Quedagh
Merchant” and became a pirate.
• He renamed the “Quedagh Merchant” the
“Adventure Prize.”
• In 1791 he was caught, convicted of murder and
piracy and hung on the execution dock in
London.
(http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConFactFile.3/
Captain-Kidd.html)

10. The name of this painting is: Kidd
burying his treasure.
Cordingly in detail elucidates , “As
soon as Kidd was safely locked up
in a Boston jail…efforts to locate
and retrieve the treasure, which
was now scattered in various
locations around New York,
Boston and the West Indies”
(190). It has yet to be discovered.
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11. Here is an illustration
from the “On the Water”
series from the
Smithsonian virtual
Museum of American
history. This ship is
similar to that of the
Captain Kidd’s ship.
Many ships like this one
were commandeered by
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Pirates while at sea.
Cordingly defines, “Captain Kidd’s ship was the Adventure Galley, of 287
tons. She was built at Deptford in 1695, had a crew of 152, and carried
thirty-four guns”(167).

12. Author David Cordingly shares, “As far as can be gleaned from the meager
information on the subject, very few of the pirate captains had wives and
families”(71). I personally was not surprised by this concept as I believe that being
a pirate was a very crude and stark existence when it came to men having families
especially pirates, but I was pleasantly surprised when reading about Pirate
William Kidd. Cordingly states, “Captain Kidd had a wife and two daughters who
lived in New York”(71). I find this interesting as Kidd had a reputation of never
taking married men he captured on his ship. Possibly the thought of married men
would remind him of New York and what he was missing.
• This illustration depicts the capture of Captain Kidd on the
River Thames at Wapping.
Cordingly continues, “The gallows was set up on the shore
near the low-tide mark. After the pirates had been hanged,
their bodies were slowly submerged by the swirling waters of
the incoming tide. It was usual to allow three tides to pass
over them before the bodies were taken away”(223).
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hanging-in-chains.html

13. This book was written by Captain
Charles Johnson and details the story
of Mary Read and Anne Bonny who
were female and became pirates. He
also includes other pirates as well in
his story. Printed in London in 1724
and held in the Smithsonian archives.
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14. Samuel Bellamy or Black Bellamy
• Was the captain of the ship the “Whydah”
• Believed to have been born in England 1689
• Was married to a woman who lived in England, but left her and a son
behind to be a sailor.
• While docked in Eastham Harbor, Massachusetts he met Maria Hallelt.
• She was 15 years old and he was smitten.
• He left port looking for Spanish gold in the west only to become a pirate.
• Known as “Black Bellamy” or at times “ Pirate Robin Hood”.
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15. Here you can see that
the map of Cape Cod
shows Eastham on
the inside curve of
the Cape.
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16. According to David Cordingly , “ The most famous pirate shipwreck took
place on the shores of Cape Cod on April 26, 1717. Sam Bellamy had
captured the slave ship the Whydah a few weeks before in the Windward
Passage as she headed for London” (79).
Here is Bellamy finally returning to his lost love Maria only to be
shipwrecked off the coast of Cape Cod. He was traveling with another
ship when all hell broke loose.
Cordingly continues, “ During the evening of April 26 the weather turned
nasty. Driving rain reduced visibility so that the ships lost touch with each
other, but more serious than the rain was the strong easterly winds which
spring up, sweeping in from the Atlantic and building up a gale force” (79).
In the end eight men survived, but alas Black Bellamy drowns never to see
his Maria again.

17. I recently made a trip to the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne,
Vermont. These pictures have really nothing to do with
pirates, but they are definitely related to whaling off the coast
of Cape Cod. I thought that they were interesting and wanted
to share them with you! Enjoy!
Original head off a ship
This was a pulley off of a
whaling ship used to haul
the whale on board the
ship.
Young maiden ships head

21. The Whale tooth's are
number 1, 3, 4, 5

22. Bibliography
Cordingly, David. Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among Pirates.
New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 1996. Print.
History, Smithsonian: National Museum of American. On the Water. n.d. Web. 29 May 2012.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthewater/
History, Smithsonian: National Museum of American . On the Water. Jeff Warner, Louis
Killen, Jeff Davis, Fud Benson. "Away Rio." n.d. Sound Bite.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthewater/pdf/transcript_away_rio.pdf
History, Smithsonian: National Museum of American. On the Water. Bob Webb. “Whiskey
Johnny”. n.d.Sound Bite.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthewater/pdf/transcript_whiskey_johnny.pdf
Museum National Maritime. London and the Pirates. 1988. Web. 3 June 2012.
http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server.php?show=ConNarrative.57&chapterI
d=998
Orchestra, Global Stage. "Tia Dalma." Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. By Hans
Zimmer. 2007. Audio .
Orchestra, The City of Prague Philharmonic. "Davy Jones." Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead
Man's Chest. By Hans Zimmer. 2006. audio.
Pirate Images. Web. 8 June 2012. http://beej.us/pirates/index.html
The Way of Pirates. Famous Pirates.2012. Web. 4 June 2012.
http://www.thewayofthepirates.com