Accomplice · Perpetrator
Stede Bonnet
- Born
- 29 July 1688
- Died
- 10 December 1718, aged about 30
- Record
- Wikidata Q444908 · Wikipedia
Accomplice in Blackbeard's Last Fight
Barbados landowner turned pirate whose sloop Revenge Teach took over; hanged at Charles Town.
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.
Perpetrator in The Gentleman Pirate
Barbados planter turned pirate; convicted at Charles Town and hanged. The birth date is his christening.
1717–1718 · Charles Town (Charleston), South Carolina · Executed
A rich Barbados planter bought a ship, hired a crew and went pirating in 1717. Eighteen months later Charles Town hanged him, despite his pleas. Read the case.
Dated events
Stede Bonnet is christened in Christ Church parish, Barbados.
Bonnet fits out the sloop Revenge and sails from Barbados as a pirate.
Wounded after a fight with a Spanish warship, Bonnet reaches Nassau and joins Teach.
Bonnet is aboard Queen Anne's Revenge during the blockade of Charles Town.
Bonnet takes the king's pardon from Governor Eden at Bath, North Carolina.
As Captain Thomas in the Royal James, Bonnet raids shipping off Delaware Bay.
Bonnet surrenders to William Rhett after the battle in the Cape Fear River.
Bonnet escapes custody in Charles Town; he is recaptured on Sullivan's Island.
Most of Bonnet's crew are hanged at Charles Town.
Judge Nicholas Trott sentences Bonnet to death.
Bonnet is hanged at White Point, Charles Town.