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And two new Commodores, Kruger and Workman. Oh, Hello, welcome to the Pirate History Podcast. Last time we talked about the expansion of colonial New England and the first New England

Pirate, Dixie Bull.

Today we're continuing on in that vein, but we're going to blast past a lot of this early American history and some of the very early American pirates.

See, there's a lot of pirates operating off the Atlantic coast, just as there are in the West Indies

during this first half of the 17th century.

But we run into the same problems in New England that we did in the West Indies.

We don't have an Alexander Exquimelin or a William Dampir that realized the value of these stories, and you know not the cultural value, it's not literature

we're talking about, it's the monetary value, the cold hard cash that was to be earned by publishing their tales.

Most of the sources we have are usually kind of dry.

Council minutes and trial records, which means that, unfortunately, many of the stories we have

about those early American pirates are kind of dull. You know, they might nab a hall of fur or fish or to be of And these very early American pirates don't necessarily share the culture of the latter pirates.

They don't have pirate codes or even sometimes their ship or democracy.

Most of that came from Barbary and the Sally Rovers, or the Brethren of the Coast.

And it's that culture, that anarchic anti-establishment culture that threatened to bring the great empires of the world

to their knees, right?

So insofar as I am able, to get back to that era of empire-shaking piracy, I'm going to truncate this story,

the bullet point version of early American piracy.

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