Outing . ollection of ships in the Peabody Museum includes the only model of the frigateConstitution made during her fighting career. Pilgrim Fathers passed away. The piratesof the Spanish Main and the Southerncoasts of this country have enjoyed almosta monopoly of popular interest in fact andfiction. As early as 1632, however, theNew England coast was plagued by pirates,and the doughty merchant seamen ofSalem and other ports were sallying forthto fight them for a hundred years on 1670, the General Court published inBoston, by beat of drum, a proclama- tion against a ship at the Isle of
Outing . ollection of ships in the Peabody Museum includes the only model of the frigateConstitution made during her fighting career. Pilgrim Fathers passed away. The piratesof the Spanish Main and the Southerncoasts of this country have enjoyed almosta monopoly of popular interest in fact andfiction. As early as 1632, however, theNew England coast was plagued by pirates,and the doughty merchant seamen ofSalem and other ports were sallying forthto fight them for a hundred years on 1670, the General Court published inBoston, by beat of drum, a proclama- tion against a ship at the Isle of Shoalssuspected of being a pirate, and three yearslater another official broadside was hurledagainst piracy and mutiny. The reportof an expedition sent out from Boston in1689 in the sloop Mary, against notoriouspirates named Thomas Hawkins andThomas Pound, has all the dramatic prop-erties of a tale of pure adventure. It re-lates that being off of Woods Hole, wewere informed there was a Pirate at Tar- 393. Old Salem Ships and Sailors 395 polin Cove, and soon after we espyed aSloop on ahead of us which we supposedto be the Sloop wherein said Pound and hisCompany were. We made what Sayle wecould and soon came near up with her,spread our Kings Jack and fired a shotathwart her forefoot, upon which a redfflagg was put out on the head of the saidSloops mast. Our Capn. ordered anothershot to be fired athwart her forefoot, butthey not striking, we came up with Capn. commanded us to fire at themwhich we accordingly did and called tothem to strike to the King of England. Pound, standing on the Quarterdeckwith his naked Sword flourishing in hishand, said: Come on Board you Doggs, Iwill strike you presently/ or words to thatpurpose, his men standing by him uponthe deck with guns in their hands, and hetaking up his Gun, they discharged aVolley at us and we at them again, and socontinued firing one at the other for somespace of time. In which engagement our Capn. SamuelPease was wou
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