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stronger, took their booty by force and, as we hear no more of them, probably murdered their late partner. Smith afterwards consorted with Every and returned with him to Providence (Court of Admiralty at Bermuda, 13th June 1705. H. C. A. 1. No. 16).
407. Though Governor Fletcher spoke later of Tew as a pirate, this consideration had not prevented him in 1694 from giving him a commission to fight the French in Canada (Letter from Fletcher, New York, 22nd June 1697; Col. Off. Records, 5/1040, 860). Tew used this as he had used that given him by Governor Richier, and sailed for Canada via the Red Sea, where in 1695 he joined Every and was killed by a cannon shot from a "Moor "ship, probably the Fateh Muhammad, in September of that year (see para. 412 below). The Amity under John Yarland returned to St. Mary's (Baldridge's Deposition).
408. On the 9th August 1695 there arrived at St. Mary's the Charming Mary (Captain Richard Glover) with a commission, dated 1694, from Governor Fletcher (C. O., 5/1040, 860), of 200 tons, 16 guns, 80 men ; Owner, Colonel Russell, etc. and a good seilor76, from Barbadoes and the Catherine (Captain Thomas Mostyn with a commission, dated 1694, from Governor Fletcher, C. O., 5/1040, 860. Owner Frederick Phillips) from New York to trade with the pirates etc. in Madagascar. In October the Charming Mary sailed to Mauratan for rice and slaves. On the 7th December arrived the Susanna (Captain Thomas Week, of 100 tons, 10 guns and 70 men), of Boston and Rhode Island. The last had missed the "Moor" fleet in the Red Sea and had got no booty. They stayed at St. Mary's until April 1696. The Captain, Master, and most of the men having died by this time, the rest of the men took the ship to St. Augustine's, and leaving her there, joined the pirate John Hore. On the 11th December 1695 the Amity under John Yarland arrived at St. Mary's, as I have already said. Wishing to change their ship her crew went to Mauratan and took the Charming Mary, but gave Captain Richard Glover everything on board her and the Amity herself to take him home. With a new ship they elected a new commander, Captain Ebbington or Babbington, and refitting at St. Augustine's sailed again for the Indian Coasts.
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409. Early in 1695 one Robert Glover, an Irishman and brother-in-law of Captain John Hore (Cal. S. P. Col., 15th February 1698), received a Commission from Governor Fletcher of New York for the Coast of Guinea (C. O., 5/1042, 30, viii). His ship, the Resolution, was of 200 tons, 20 guns and 90 men (200 tons, 18 guns, 110 men, Ind. Off. O. C., 6805) and the crew thought that pirating in the Red Sea would be more lucrative than privateering on the Guinea Coast. Glover, however, had no wish to turn pirate, but was forced to take the ship to the Red Sea, where having little success, the crew ascribed this to lukewarmness on his part, and when they had taken a small "Moor" ship, put him on board with 24 men of his party This vessel being in a very leaky condition, he came with it to St. Mary's on the 29th December and was assisted by Baldridge until June 1696 when he and his companions got shipping, to take them home (Baldridge's Deposition).
410. The most notorious of all these pirates was Henry Every (alias John Avery, Avory or Bridgman). There are several professedly authentic accounts of this worthy, besides the account given by Johnson in his General History of the Pirates, (I. 1-63), viz.: (1) The famous Adventures of Captain John Avery of Plymouth, 1809. In this he is said to have been the son of John Avery, a victualler living near Plymouth. At Madagascar he fell in with two pirates, George Dew and Thomas Tew from Bermuda, and under their persuasion turned pirate.
(2) The King of the Pirates 1720. (Two letters alleged to have been written by Every himself, but possibly the work of Defoe.) In this he says that in 1691 he served under a pirate named Nichols and known as Red or Bloody hand, who used to hoist the Black Flag "a signal that we would give no Quarter," though on a certain occasion Every persuaded him to give not only Quarter but good usage after having flown this fatal signal. This unexpected
76 In Churchill's Voyages, VI, 207, her Commander is named Thomas Plullips.
