Jon Hagadorn

Whether he was frightened by these menaces, or had seen somebody else he thought knew him, is not known, but he went immediately over to Ireland, and from thence solicited his merchants very hard for a supply, but to no purpose, for he was even reduced to beggary.

In this extremity he was resolved to return and cast himself upon them, let the consequence be what it would.

He put himself on board a trading vessel, and worked his passage over to Plymouth, from whence he travelled on foot to Biddeford, where he had been but a few days before he fell sick and died, not being worth as much as could buy him a coffin.

Thus I have given all that could be collected of any certainty concerning this man, rejecting the idle stories which were made of his fantastic greatness, by which it appears that his actions were more inconsiderable than those of other pirates since him, though he made more noise in the world.

Now we shall turn back and give our readers some account of what became of the two sloops.

We took notice of their rage and confusion, which must have seized them upon their missing of Avery.

However, they continued their course, some of them still flattering themselves that he had only out-sailed them in the night, and that they should find him at the place of rendezvous.

But when they came there, and could hear no tidings of him, there was an end of hope.

It was time to consider what they should do with themselves.

Their stock of sea provision was almost spent, and though there was rice and fish and fowl to be had ashore, yet these would not keep for sea without being properly cured with salt, which they had no conveniency of doing.

Therefore, since they could not go a-cruising any more, it was time to think of establishing themselves at land, to which purpose they took out all things out of the sloop, made tents of the sails, and encamped themselves, having a large quantity of ammunition and abundance of small arms.

Here they met with several of their countrymen, the crew of a privateer sloop which was commanded by Captain Thomas Too, and since it will be but a short digression, we will give an account how they came here.

Captain George Dew and Captain Thomas Too, having received commissions from the then governor of Bermuda's to sail directly for the river Gambia in Africa.

There, with the advice and assistance of the agents of the Royal African Company, to attempt taking the French factory at Goury, lying upon that coast.

In a few days after they sailed out, Dew, in a violent storm, not only sprung his mast, but lost sight of his consort.

do therefore return back to refit, and two, instead of proceeding on his voyage, made for the Cape of Good Hope, and doubling the said Cape, shaped his course for the Straits of Babel-Mandal, being the entrance into the Red Sea, where he came up with a large ship, richly laden, bound from the Indies to Arabia, with three hundred soldiers on board, besides seamen,

Yet too had the hardiness to board her, and soon carried her, and, too said, by this prize, his men shared near three thousand pounds apiece.

They had intelligence from the prisoners, of five other rich ships to pass that way, which too would have attacked, though they were very strong, if he had not been overruled by the quartermaster and others.

This differing in opinion created some ill blood amongst them, so that they resolved to break up pirating, and no place was so fit to receive them as Madagascar.

Hither they steered, resolving to live on shore, and enjoy what they got.