Perpetrator in The Trial of Captain Kidd
Scottish-born privateer of New York; convicted of murder and piracy and hanged at Wapping. Born c. 1645.
1696–1701 · Execution Dock, Wapping, London · Executed
Sent by powerful backers to hunt pirates, William Kidd came home accused of being one, and was hanged twice at Execution Dock in 1701. Read the case.
Dated events
Kidd marries Sarah Oort in New York.
Bellomont commissions Kidd to hunt named pirates and French ships.
Kidd strikes the gunner William Moore with a bucket; Moore dies the next day.
Kidd captures the Quedagh Merchant off the Indian coast.
Kidd reaches Madagascar, where most of his crew desert to Robert Culliford.
Kidd is arrested in Boston on Bellomont's orders.
Kidd's trial for murder and piracy opens at the Old Bailey.
Kidd is convicted on all six indictments and sentenced to death.
Kidd is hanged at Execution Dock, Wapping; the first rope breaks.