Anstis , Thomas: an early 18th-century pirate, who served under Captain {c684} and Captain {c669}, before setting up on his own account, raiding shipping on ...
Armstrong : Born in London. A deserter from the Royal Navy. One of Captain Roberts's crew taken by H.M.S. Swallow, from which ship he had previously des...
Anstis , Thomas: an early 18th-century pirate, who served under Captain {c684} and Captain {c669}, before setting up on his own account, raiding shipping on ...
Armstrong : Born in London. A deserter from the Royal Navy. One of Captain Roberts's crew taken by H.M.S. Swallow, from which ship he had previously des...
Ashplant , Valentine: Born in the Minories, London. He served with Captain {c684}, and later with {c669}. He was one of the leading lights of Roberts's crew, a me...
Ball , Roger: One of Captain Bartholomew's crew in the Royal Fortune. Captured by H.M.S. Swallow off the West Coast of Africa. He had been terribly burnt ...
Bill , Philip: Belonged to the Island of St. Thomas. One of Captain Roberts's crew. Hanged at the age of 27.
Fenn , John: an early 17th-century English pirate who sailed with Captain {c669} and later had a brief partnership with Thomas Anstis. Although much of h...
Hardy , Richard: One of Captain {c669}' crew. Hanged at Cape Coast Castle, West Coast of Africa, on April 6th, 1722, at the age of 25 years.
Harper , Abraham: Born at Bristol.
He was cooper on board Captain {c669}' Royal Fortune. When the pirates took a prize, it was Harper's duty to see that al...
Harris , Hugh: Of Corfe Castle, Dorsetshire.
One of Roberts's crew; tried and condemned to be hanged in 1722, but reprieved and sold to the Royal Africa...
Harris , Richard: A Cornishman.
One of Captain Roberts's crew and the oldest, being 45 years of age when he was hanged, an unusually advanced age to reach ...
Kennedy [2], Walter: Kennedy was a pickpocket and burglar before sailing from New Providence Island in the Bahamas in 1718 with {c684}. After Davis' murder in Ju...
Magnes , William: Born at Minehead in Somersetshire in 1687. Quartermaster of the Royal Fortune (Captain {c669}). Tried for piracy at Cape Coast Castle, and h...
Main [1], William: One of Captain Roberts's crew. Hanged in April, 1722, at the age of 28 years.
Main [2], William: Boatswain to Captain {c669} in the Royal Fortune. Was blown up, the explosion being caused by one of the crew firing his pistol into some gu...
Oughterlauney , Thomas: Acted as pilot in the Royal Fortune. Took an active part in taking and plundering the King Solomon on the West Coast of Africa in 1721.
Was...
Petty , William: Born at Deptford.
A sailmaker in Captain {c669}' Royal Fortune when the King Solomon was taken and plundered in West Africa. Petty, as sa...
Philips , James: Formerly of the Revenge, and afterwards in the Royal Fortune (Captain {c669}). When the Royal Fortune surrendered in 1722 to H.M.S. Swallow,...
Rice [1], David: Welsh pirate.
Of Bristol.
Taken out of the Cornwall galley by Captain {c669}, he served in the Royal Fortune. Tried and found guilty o...
Smith , George: Welsh pirate. One of Captain Roberts's pirates. Hanged at the age of 25.
Stephenson , John: Sailed as an honest seaman in the Onslow (Captain Gee) from Sestos. Taken in May, 1721, by the pirate Captain {c669}, he willingly joined th...
Watts [1], William: An Irishman. Hanged, at the age of 23, along with the rest of Roberts's crew.
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The Pirates' Who's Who: (P. Gosse, 1924)
Sailed as an honest seaman in the Onslow (Captain Gee) from Sestos. Taken in May, 1721, by the pirate Captain Roberts, he willingly joined the pirates. When Roberts was killed on board the Royal Fortune, Stephenson burst into tears, and declared that ...
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Sailed as an honest seaman in the Onslow (Captain Gee) from Sestos. Taken in May, 1721, by the pirate Captain Roberts, he willingly joined the pirates. When Roberts was killed on board the Royal Fortune, Stephenson burst into tears, and declared that he wished the next shot might kill him. Hanged in 1722.
