SinisterCrimes

Accomplice

Benjamin Hornigold

Born
1680
Died
1719, aged about 39
Record
Wikidata Q542786 · Wikipedia

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

  1. Teach is given command of a captured sloop by Benjamin Hornigold, operating out of New Providence.