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Real Pirates in Boothbay Harbor, Maine - Article 3 (opens the original)
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In the second installment of this “Real Pirates” series, we dissected the May 24, 1717 Boston News-Letter to learn of two pirate sloops at Damariscove Island and introduced three possible suspects: Samuel Bellamy, Paulsgrave Williams, and Richard Noland. Today, we continue tracing these men through primary-source evidence found in official correspondence and testimony from plundered crewmen. Together, these accounts help reconstruct their movements northward toward Maine in the spring of 1717. E
Following the Clues from a 1717 Newspaper (opens the original)
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In the last article, we introduced an intriguing report from the Boston News-Letter of May 20–27, 1717. If you missed it, here is the content: “Piscataqua –May 24. Fishermen tell us, that the Pirate Sloop of 8 Guns left Richmonds Island last Lords Day, and others tell us, that both the Pirate Sloops are together at Damerill’s Cove Careening, and that one of them has about 90 Men on board her. We have heard nothing as yet of Col. Walton, whom His Excellency sent out from hence in quest of the Pir
Who were the real pirates plying Boothbay Harbor's waters? (opens the original)
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When most people think of pirates, they picture the turquoise waters of the Caribbean, not the rocky shores and islands of mid-coast Maine. Yet hidden among early records is evidence that real pirates once sailed the waters off Boothbay Harbor. During the Golden Age of Piracy (1650–1730), merchant ships returning to Europe from the Caribbean traveled north along the U.S. eastern seaboard before catching the Gulf Stream and favorable winds to carry them eastward across the Atlantic Ocean. Laden w
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