the pirate plague of the dead bartholomew roberts ship

The article then appeared eight months later, in America's first newspaper, Boston News-Letter, of Boston, Massachusetts. Plumb left England December 23, 1718, purchased his slave cargo on the coast of West Africa at Sierra Leone, was captured there by Howell Davis, plundered circa May 1719, traded for more slaves at Anomabu on the Gold Coast, and finally delivered human cargo to Kingston, Jamaica by December of 1719. Illustrating the wide connection of the Atlantic World, Capt. This article was first printed on the American side of the Atlantic 'pond' in Boston News-Letter of August 20, 1720.

The newspaper told his name as 'Thomas Roberts.' We know him better as Bartholomew Roberts. This 'active, brisk man' pirate had been the third mate of Princess Galley, captained by Abraham Plumb and owned by Richard Harris in partnership with Humphrey Morice, built in 1715. The London, England general public had learned of a brand new pirate in the Weekly Journal of London on October 15, 1720. Original held and digitized by the British The physical geography and meteorology of the North Atlantic …, by Harbour of Trepassey (1896) - Image extracted from page 694 of North Atlantic Directory.

The pirate plague of the dead bartholomew roberts ship