A General History of the Pyrates

by Captain Charles Johnson

• The Preface.
• The Contents.
• Introduction.
• Of Captain Avery, and his Crew.
• Of Captain Martel, and his Crew.
• Of Captain Teach, alias Black-Beard.
• Of Major Stede Bonnet, and his Crew.
• Of Captain Edward England, and his Crew.
• Of Captain Charles Vane, and his Crew.
• Of Captain John Rackam, and his Crew.
• The Life of Mary Read.
• The Life of Anne Bonny.
• Of Captain Howel Davis, and his Crew.
• Of Captain Bartholomew Roberts, and his Crew.
• Of Captain Anstis, and his Crew.
• Of Captain Worley, and his Crew.
• Of Captain George Lowther, and his Crew.
• Of Captain Edward Low and his Crew.
• Of Captain John Evans and his Crew.
• Of Captain John Phillips, and his Crew.
• Of Captain Spriggs, and his Crew.
• An Abstract of the Civil Law and Statue Law now in France, in Relation to Pyracy.

A General
History
of the
Pyrates,

from
Their first Rise and Settlement in the Island of
Providence, to the present Time.

With the remarkable Actions and Adventures of the two Female Pyrates
Mary Read and Anne Bonny;

Contain’d in the following Chapters,

Introduction IX. Of Capt. Roberts. Chap. I. Of Capt. Avery. X. Of Capt. Anstis. II. Of Capt. Martel. XI. Of Capt. Worley. III. Of Capt. Teach. XII. Of Capt. Lowther. IV. Of Capt. Bonnet. XIII. Of Capt. Low. V. Of Capt. England. XIV. Of Capt. Evans. VI. Of Capt. Vane. XV. Of Capt. Phillips. VII. Of Capt. Rackam. XVI. Of Capt. Spriggs. VIII. Of Capt. Davis. And their several Crews.

To which is added.
A short Abstract of the Statute and Civil
Law, in Relation to Pyracy.

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The second Edition, with considerable Additions

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By Captain Charles Johnson.

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LONDON:
Printed for, and sold by T. Warner, at the Black-Boy in Pater-Noster-Row, 1724.