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1659, Aug 231695-16961696+
an English pirate who operated in the Atlantic and Indian oceans in the mid-1690s. He probably used several aliases throughout his career, including Benjamin Bridgeman, and was known as Long Ben to his crewmen and associates.
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Charles the Second Crew:
Led by Henry Every
Bishop [2], William: One of Avery's crew. Hanged at Execution Dock in 1691.
Dawson , Joseph: Crew member of Charles the Second, captained by Henry Every. Captured and tried at the Old Bailey in 1696 for piracy and convicted. He pleaded fo...
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Ships:
  • Fancy (1694), formerly Charles, merchant man-of-war, 46 guns, 150 men
  • Charles the Second, unknown type
The Pirates' Who's Who:
(P. Gosse, 1924)
In the year 1695, when at the height of his career, Avery caught the public's fancy as no other pirate ever did, with the possible exception of Captain Kidd. So much so that his achievements, or supposed achievements, formed the plot of several popular novels and p...
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Treasure:
  • 1695, with five other captains under his command, takes well over £1,600,000 from the Fateh Mohammed (a Pilgram Ship) the Gang-i-sawai (largest ship of the Great Mogul w/ 40 cannon) off Cape St. John
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Joseph Dawson
Crew member of Charles the Second, captained by Henry Every. Captured and tried at the Old Bailey in 1696 for piracy...
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Captain Henry Every1659, Aug 231695
 
16961696+

Edward Forseithunknown1690
 
16961696
 One of Captain Avery's crew. Hanged at Execution Dock, 1696.
Alexandre-Olivier Exquemelin16451669
 
16971707
 a French, Dutch or Flemish writer best known as the author of one of the most important sourceboo...
Jean Bart1650, Oct 211672
 
16971702, Apr 27
 a French naval commander and privateer. He served in the Dutch Navy and later became a successful...
Laurens de Graaf16531672
 
16971704, May 24
 Characterised as "a great and mischievous pirate" by Henry Morgan, de Graaf was a Dutch pirate, m...
Jean-Baptiste du Casse16461676
 
16971715
 a French buccaneer, admiral, and colonial administrator who served throughout the Atlantic World ...
Adam Baldridgeunknown1685
 
1697unknown
 an English pirate and one of the early founders of the pirate settlements in Madagascar. Fleeing ...
Sir James Houblon1629, Jul1654
 
16981700, Oct
 an influential merchant and Member of Parliament for the City of London. He held appointments in ...
Sidi Abdulla Ben Aissaunknown1672
 
16981698 ca
 pirate who targeted French ships. ..... Berber (Moroccan) pirate. He served in the Mediterran...
Robert Culliford16661690
 
16981710 ca
 an English pirate from Cornwall who is best remembered for repeatedly checking the designs of Cap...
Antonio Fuetunknown1660
 
1699unknown
 This French pirate from Narbonne was known as Captain Moidore. Once, when he was attacking a ship...
Captain Allestonunknown1679
 
1699unknown
 Commanded a vessel of eighteen tons, no guns, and a crew of twenty-four. In March, 1679, sailed i...
Christopher Goffeunknown1680
 
1699unknown
 Originally one of Captain Woollery's crew of Rhode Island pirates. In November, 1687, he surrende...
Thomas Hawkins [2]unknown1680
 
1699unknown
 Born at Boston. Turned pirate and cruised with Captain Pound. Tried for piracy at Boston in 1690,...
Captain Knotunknown1680
 
1699unknown
 An old Massachusetts pirate who retired from the sea and was settled in Boston in 1699. His wife ...
Sion Arnoldunknown1690
 
1699unknown
 A Madagascar pirate, who was brought to New England by Captain Shelley in 1699.
Captain Burkunknown1690
 
16991699
 An Irishman, who committed many piracies on the coast of Newfoundland. Drowned in the Atlantic du...
Moses Butterworthunknown1690
 
1699unknown
 a crew member of Captain Kidd
John Carr [1]unknown1690
 
1699unknown
 A Massachusetts pirate, one of Hore's crew, who was hiding in Rhode Island in 1699.
Joseph Danunknown1690
 
1699unknown
 One of Avery's crew. Turned King's witness at his trial in 1696, and was not hanged.
Dawesunknown1690
 
1699unknown
 Corsair. An English renegade. When Roberts was cast away on June 12th, 1692, in Nio, a small isla...
Joseph Dawsonunknown1690
 
16991696
 Crew member of Charles the Second, captained by Henry Every. Captured and tried at the Old Bailey...
Baron Bernard Desjean1645, Oct 71690
 
16991707, Apr 24
 a French admiral and privateer. In 1697, he undertook his greatest expedition: the Raid on Cartag...
Francis Doleunknown1690
 
1699unknown
 Was one of Hore's crew. Lived with his wife, when not "on the account," at his house at Charlesto...
Gillamunknown1690
 
1699unknown
 aka James Kelly? ...Captain Knot's wife gave information to the Governor, the Earl of Bellomont, ...
William Jenkins16821690
 
16991750 ca
 Age 14. ....... English pirate, sailed on the ship Captain William Kidd ADVENTURE GALLEY in th...
Captain James Lewisunknown1690
 
16991696
 After being a prisoner in France, he managed to reach Spain, and was with Avery when he seized th...
William Neff16671690
 
1699unknown
 Born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1667. A soldier, one of the guard at Fort Loyal, Falmouth...
John Sparkesunknown1690
 
16991696
 A member of Captain Avery's crew, and described by one of his shipmates as being "a true cock of ...
Ralph Stoutunknown1690
 
16991697
 In 1692 Stout was arrested in India while serving with James Kelley. The prisoners escaped by boa...
Dirk Chiversunknown1694
 
1699unknown
 a Dutch pirate active in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean during the 1690s. Dirk Chivers is first rec...
Captain William Kidd1645, Jan 221695
 
16991701, May 23
 a Scottish sailor who was tried and executed for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indi...
Tee Wetherleyunknown1690
 
17001700
 A Massachusetts pirate, with only one eye. Captured in 1699 with the pirate Joseph Bradish and pu...
Darby Mullins16611690
 
17011701, May 23
 Kidnapped servant turned pirate.....This Irish pirate was born in the north of Ireland, not many ...
Thomas Howard [3]unknown1693
 
1703unknown
 a pirate primarily active in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea during the Golden Age of Piracy. He...
Anne Dieu-Le-Veut1661, Aug 281650
 
17041710, Jan 11
 a French Pirate. Alongside Jacquotte Delahaye she was one of very few female Buccaneers. She was ...
Lionel Wafer16401679
 
17051705
 a Welsh explorer, buccaneer and privateer. A ship's surgeon, Wafer made several voyages to the So...
Abraham Samuelunknown1690
 
17051705
 a mulatto pirate, born in Martinique, of the Indian Ocean in the days of the Pirate Round in the ...
Captain William Mayunknown1680
 
1709unknown
 English pirate captain of the PEARL and also known as PEARL OF RHODE ISLAND. He served in the Ca...
Nathaniel North16711689
 
1709unknown
 a Bermuda-born pirate during the Golden Age of Piracy, operating in the Indian Ocean under John B...
Gardinerunknown1690
 
1709unknown
 Although at one time a pirate, by some means or other he became appointed to the office of Deputy...
Major Thomas Jones [1]16651690
 
17091713
  as a young man, he joined the Irish who fought unsuccessfully for James the 2nd against the Brit...
Benjamin Parkinsunknown1690
 
1709unknown
 Crew member of The Charles, commanded by John Quelch
Captain Thomas Whiteunknown1690
 
17091708
 White migrated to Barbados from Plymouth after serving in the Royal Navy. Circa 1698, White was i...
William Dampier1651, Sep1673
 
17151715, Mar
 the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumn...
Alexander Dalzeel16621685
 
17151715, Dec 5
 a seventeenth-century pirate and former officer under Henry Avery. According to pirate lore, Dalz...
Captain Samuel Burgess16501690
 
17161716
 Burgess was a member of Captain William Kidd's crew in 1690 when the Blessed William was seized. ...
Stephen Jamesunknown1690
 
1717unknown
 Tried and hanged for piracy at Charleston in 1717.
Joseph Riversunknown1690
 
17171717
 Joseph Rivers was a rarity: a pirate with a long resume. Most pirates died young, sometimes at th...
Captain Dennis McCarthyunknown1690
 
1718unknown
 ref: the history of pirates. Of New Providence, Bahama Islands. This pirate and prize-fighter wa...
Joseph Palmerunknown1690
 
17191720 ca
 English pirate. He sailed on the ship Captain William Kidd ADVENTURE GALLEY in the Caribbean and ...
Hugh Parrotunknown1690
 
17191720 ca
 English pirate. He sailed on the ship Captain William Kidd ADVENTURE GALLEY in the Caribbean and ...
Alexander Selkirk16761690
 
17191721, Dec 13
 a Scottish sailor who spent more than four years as a castaway after being marooned on an uninhab...
Emanuel Wynnunknown1690
 
1719unknown
 a French pirate of the 18th century, and is often considered the first pirate to fly the Jolly Ro...
Jonas Berntsson Lambert-Wenman1665 ca1680
 
17291732
 Jonas Berntsson Lambert-Wenman was born in Ume, Vsterbotten, Sweden in approximately 1665. He was...
Réné Duguay-Trouin1673, Jun 101690
 
17361736
 Privateer......This Breton corsair from St. Malo became so famous for his attacks on British ship...
Lancelot Blackburne1658, Dec 101680
 
17431743, Mar 23
 an English clergyman, who became Archbishop of York, and – in popular belief – a pirate. He w...
Robert Searleunknown1650
 
175unknown
 one of the earliest and most active of the English buccaneers on Jamaica. Nothing, to date, is kn...
Jean Francois Chambrayunknown1687
 
1756unknown
 Knight of Malta
La Marquise de Fresneunknown1680
 
178unknown
 Female pirate. Active late 1600's, Mediterranean Pirate
Captain James Missonunknown1690
 
1781694
 The account of Captain Misson is highly disputed by historians. He is described in the 2nd volume...
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