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Title: Our first century
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Eggleston, George Cary, 1839-1911
Subjects: United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
Publisher: New York, A.S. Barnes & Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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uded men are frequently engaged in dig-ging here and there for the treasures which CaptainKidd is reported to have buried somewhere on our coasts. Kidd was caught at last and hanged for murder, aswere also nearly all the other leaders of piratical en-terprises in that time. They were pursued and caughtat first by the determined efforts of Virginia and Massa-chusetts ; a little later by those of the South Carolinaauthorities who practically made an end of the nefariousbusiness. This extirpation of piracy was not completed until theeighteenth century was well into its teens, or even later,but it seems best thus briefly to tell the whole story here,rather than leave the conclusion of it to another volume. A shipmaster of Boston, who turned pirate, was caughtand hanged in chains, and left hanging till the carrioncrows picked his bones. This was done, as was pro-claimed at the time, in order that his punishment might be a spectacle and so a warning to others. NAVIGATION LAWS AND PIRACY 251
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Captain Edward Teach, commonly called Blackbeard, as represented inthe History of the Pyrates, by Captain Charles Johnson, 1734. 252 OUR FIRST CENTURY One of the most desperate and most terrible of thepirates, was a man who was known as * Blackbeard,because he wore a long beard which he pleated into awe-inspiring braids. Many of the Massachusetts and Vir-ginia expeditions that were sent out against the pirates,chased this peculiarly bloodthirsty desperado in vain.At last, in the early part of the eighteenth century, newsof Blackbeards presence in an inlet on the coast ofNorth Carolina reached the governor of Virginia. Hepromptly sent Lieutenant Maynard to the pirates hid-ing place, with orders to take him and his crew, deador alive, Blackbeard gave desperate battle of course.Among other precautions he stationed one of his mennear his ships powder magazine with orders to blowup the ship if by any chance Maynard should capture it. The battle that ensued was long and fierce, for May-nard

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