Accomplice in Blackbeard's Last Fight
Bahamas pirate captain under whom Teach served; later took the pardon and hunted pirates.
1716–1719 · Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina · Killed before trial
Edward Teach held Charles Town to ransom for a chest of medicine, took a royal pardon, went back to sea and died on a sloop's deck at Ocracoke in 1718. Read the case.
Dated events
Teach is given command of a captured sloop by Benjamin Hornigold, operating out of New Providence.