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PHILIP ASHTON
Captured by pirates and forced to become one, I managed to escape and spent 16 months marooned on an island before returning to my hometown of Marblehead
Ned LOW
My own men called me a "maniac and a brute"; I made one Spaniard eat the heart of another before I killed him.
DIXIE BULL
Having been robbed myself, I turned to piracy and became New England's first pirate.
SAM BELLAMY
I raided ships in the West Indies and commanded the "Wydah" until we went down in a storm in 1717.
WILLIAM KIDD
I was a privateer hired to find Blackbeard, but I became America's most famous pirate instead. Although the rope broke at my hanging, I was gibbeted for twenty years.
BLACKBEARD
I was probably the most notorious pirate. I left 14 wives, 40 children and a treasure that may still be buried at the Isle of Shoals
RACHEL WALL
My husband and I were New Hampshire pirates. He was drowned, and I was hanged for a murder that I didn't commit.
MILLARD FILLMORE
My great-grandfather was a pirate, but I still became thirteenth President of the United States.

marooned

left on an island by pirates

cutlass

pirate sword

WILLIAM FLY
Known for my cursing rages and inhuman brutality, I was a pirate chief for only one month before I was hanged and gibbeted in Boston Harbor.
THOMAS VEAL
I lived in Lynn Woods in a cave called Treasure Rock. My treasure may still be there.