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Bartholomew Roberts (17 May 1682 – 10 February 1722), born John Roberts, was a Welsh pirate who was, measured by vessels captured, the most successful pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy. [2] During his piratical career, he took over 400 prize ships , although most were mere fishing boats.
They were later used by buccaneers and pirates such as John Phillips, Edward Low and Bartholomew Roberts. Buccaneers operated under a ship's articles that, among other things, governed conduct of the crew. These "articles of agreement" became authority independent of any nation, and were variously called the Chasse-Partie, Charter Party, Custom ...
February 26 - Two pirate ships commanded by Bartholomew Roberts and Montigny la Palisse are attacked near Barbados by local ships and driven away with heavy casualties. March - Two sloops sent from Martinique to capture Roberts and his men arrive too late to capture the pirates, who have sailed northward.
John Bartholomew Roberts, better known as Black Bart, was born in Wales around 1682. He began his life on the open ocean as a merchant sailor on a slave ship between West Africa and London.
Roberts, V'leOnica, The True & Complete Memoirs of Pirate Captain Bartholomew Roberts aka Black Bart (2004) ISBN 1-59971-939-8; Cordingly, David, Under the Black Flag: The Romance and Reality of Life Among the Pirates Harcourt Brace: New York (1995) Rich, Jeremy, A Workman Is Worthy of His Meat: Food and Colonialism in the Gabon Estuary.
February 10 - Bartholomew Roberts, who reportedly robbed 470 vessels in his career, killed in action off Cape López. [7] 104 of Roberts' pirates are executed or killed by the Vice Admiralty Court: [8] 52 crew members, including Christopher Moody, Israel Hynde (maybe Israel Hands), are executed by hanging on April 3–20 at Cape Coast Castle. [6]
That October off St. Lucia, Bartholomew Roberts took over a dozen vessels, [2] Greyhound included. Captured, Skyrme signed their Articles and joined Roberts’ crew while Roberts burned Greyhound. [3] Two French ships attacked Roberts in April 1721, but were themselves captured by the pirates.
Thomas Anstis (died April 1723) was an early 18th-century pirate, who served under Captain Howell Davis and Captain Bartholomew Roberts, before setting up on his own account, raiding shipping on the eastern coast of the American colonies and in the Caribbean during what is often referred to as the "Golden Age of Piracy".