Monday, April 06, 2009

Book: Blackbeard and crew born in Carolinas

BATH -- In a pirate-worthy broadside on conventional history, a Raleigh author claims that Blackbeard and many of his henchmen weren't rogue Englishmen, but sons of North Carolina landowners.

Most historical accounts contend that the notorious pirate known as Edward Teach or Thatch was from Bristol, England. But Kevin P. Duffus said his review of archives and genealogical research indicates that Blackbeard was probably Edward Beard, son of a landowner in Bath in Beaufort County.

"There's never going to be a smoking gun to determine who he really was," Duffus said of the pirate. "My version is a lot more plausible than what's been foisted upon us for nearly three centuries."
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Monday, September 17, 2007

The Pirate of Panther Bay

PantherBay.com: "The Pirate of Panther Bay Isabella never thought her first command would be in jeopardy so soon. But pirates expect results, and she wasn't delivering. If she could just get rid of her albatross, the dashing Spaniard seized from her first price; she should have killed him. But, she couldn't have known his very presence was about to send her life into a maelstrom of mutiny, imprisonment, and revenge."

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