Pirates and Buccaneers of the Atlantic Coast

by Edward Rowe Snow, Jeremy D'Entremont (Revised by), Kenneth Kinkor (Foreword by)

Overview

Pirates and the treasures they buried were Edward Rowe Snow's favorite topics, and here he describes them with all the relish of a dedicated historian and master storyteller. You will learn of Captain Quelch, who brought gold to New England; Captain Phillips, whose head was pickled; Charles Gibbs, who was hanged at New York; and the husband and wife pirates of Nova Scotia. In tales ranging from the Canadian Maritimes to Florida, Snow also details the skullduggery of Captains Bellamy, Low, Kidd, Teach (alias Blackbeard), and many others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781933212180
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	11/13/2012
Pages:	308
Sales rank:	581,592
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Edward Rowe Snow was a masterful storyteller famous for his tales of the sea and New England history. As the Flying Santa, he flew in small planes and helicopters over the lighthouses of New England, dropping Christmas parcels for the keepers and their families.

Table of Contents

	Foreword
	Introduction to the 1944 Edition
	Introduction to the Snow Centennial Edition
Part I	New England Pirates	1
1.	Captain Bellamy, Wrecked at Cape Cod	3
2.	Captain Quelch, Who Brought Gold to New England	23
3.	William Fly, Hanged in Boston	34
4.	Philip Ashton, Whose Story Surpasses Robinson Crusoe	44
5.	Thomas Pound, Who Escaped the Hangman's Noose	60
6.	Thomas Tew of Newport, Aided by New York's Governor	72
7.	Captain Phillips, Whose Head Was Pickled	84
8.	Other New England Pirates	95
Part II	Chesapeake Bay to Florida	119
9.	Captain George Lowther	121
10.	Captain Edward Low, the Infamous Buccaneer	131
11.	Captain Francis Spriggs, Active off Florida's Coast	151
12.	Charles Harris, Hanged with His Crew at Newport	158
Part III	New York, Philadelphia, and Southward	167
13.	Captain William Kidd, "The Innocentest" of Them All	169
14.	Blackbeard, Alias Teach, the Most Ferocious Pirate	190
15.	Major Stede Bonnet, the Gentleman Pirate	208
16.	Charles Gibbs, Who Was Hanged at New York	213
17.	The Pirates Who Were Executed at Philadelphia	224
Part IV	The Women Pirates	231
18.	Alwida and Mrs. Ching	233
19.	Mary Read and Ann Bonney, Who Loved and Fought	234
Part V	Newfoundland and Nova Scotia	245
20.	Bartholomew Roberts, the Pirate Cavalier	247
21.	The Husband and Wife Pirates of Nova Scotia	256
Part VI	Searching for Buried Pirate Treasure	263
22.	The Lure of Pirate Gold	265
23.	Pirate Treasure Found Near Boothbay, Maine	270
24.	A Successful Cape Cod Pirate Treasure Hunt	273
	Bibliography from the 1944 Edition	281
	Index	282
	About the Author	287