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CHAP. III. 



OF 



tain TEACH, 



alias Black-beard. 



E Bward Teach vid^s^Briftol Man born, but had 

 failed Ibme Time out of Jamaica in Priva- 

 t teers^ in the late Frer/ch War ; yet tho' he 

 had often diftinguiiiied himfelf for his uncommon I 

 Boldnpfs and perfbnal Courage, he was never raifed 

 to any Command, till he went a-py rating, which 

 I think was at the latter End of the Year 1716, | 

 when Captain Benjamin JJornigold put him into a 

 Sloop that he had made Prize of, and with whom 

 he Gontiuned in ConfortHiip till a little while before 

 fiorntgold furrendered. 



In the Spring of the Year 1717, Teach and Hor- 

 pigold failed from ProvUlencCj for the Main of America^ 

 and took in their Way a Billop from the Havana^ ^ 

 with 120 Barrels of Fipwer, as alio a Sloop from ^ 

 Bermuda^ Thurhar Mafter, from whom they took only 

 fome Gallons of Wine, and then let him go ^ and 

 a Ship from Made/a to South-Carolina^ out pt which 

 they got Plunder to a confiderable Value* 



Aft^r cleaning on the Coaft of Vtrginia^ they re- ;j 

 turned to the Weft-hdiesy and in the Latitude of 

 made ?nj.^ of a ki'ge Fr^n^h Quiney Man, 



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