John Hagedorn

Then all things went well again.

Thus it was these wretches passed their lives, with very little pleasure or satisfaction, in the possession of what they violently take away from others, and sure to pay for it at last by an ignominious death.

The names of the pirates killed in the engagement are as follows.

Edward Teach, Commander.

Philip Morton, Gunner.

Garrett Gibbons, Bosun.

Owen Roberts, Carpenter.

Thomas Miller, Quartermaster.

John Husk.

Joseph Curtis.

Joseph Brooks.

Nathaniel Jackson.

All the rest except the two last were wounded and afterwards hanged in Virginia.

John Carnes, Joseph Phillips, Joseph Brooks II, James Robbins, James Blake, John Martin, John Gills, Edward Salter, Thomas Gates, Stephen Daniel, James White, Richard Greensale, Richard Stiles, Israel Hands pardoned, Caesar, Samuel O'Dell acquitted.

When this chapter ends, I have quite a story to share with you about those who were really hung and those who weren't, according to popular historians' belief.

There were in the pirate sloops, at a shore in a tent, near where the sloops lay, 25 hogs' heads of sugar, 11 tierces, and 145 bags of cocoa, a barrel of indigo, and a bale of cotton.

which, with what was taken from the governor and secretary, and the sale of a sloop, came to 2,500 pounds, besides the rewards paid by the governor of Virginia, pursuant to his proclamation, all which was divided among the companies of the two ships, Lime and Pearl, that lay in the James River, the brave fellows that took them coming in for no more than their dividend amongst the rest, and was paid it within these three months.

The chapter to follow, chapter four of Major Steed Bonnet and his crew.

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Now you're going to get the true story of Blackbeard.