"That Heinous Rebellion first put in Practice by that Pirate Ingle."--Acts of Assembly, 1638-64, p. 238.
"Those late troubles raised there by that ungrateful Villaine Richard Ingle."--Ibid., p. 270.
"I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."--Jefferson, Works, Vol. III, p. 105.
Fund-Publication, No. 19
CAPTAIN RICHARD INGLE,
The Maryland "Pirate and Rebel,"
1642-1653.
[Illustration]
A Paper read before the Maryland Historical Society,
May 12th, 1884,
BY
EDWARD INGLE, A. B.
BALTIMORE. 1884.
PEABODY PUBLICATION FUND.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION.
1884-5.
HENRY STOCKBRIDGE, JOHN W. M. LEE, BRADLEY T. JOHNSON.
PRINTED BY JOHN MURPHY & CO. PRINTERS TO THE MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY, BALTIMORE, 1884.
CAPTAIN RICHARD INGLE,
THE MARYLAND "PIRATE AND REBEL."
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the American colonies, from Massachusetts to South Carolina, were at intervals subject to visitations of pirates, who were wont to appear suddenly upon the coasts, to pillage a settlement or attack trading vessels and as suddenly to take flight to their strongholds. Captain Kidd was long celebrated in prose and verse, and only within a few years have credulous people ceased to seek his buried treasures. The arch-villain, Blackbeard, was a terror to Virginians and Carolinians until Spotswood, of "Horseshoe" fame, took the matter in hand, and sent after him lieutenant Maynard, who, slaying the pirate in hand to hand conflict, returned with his head at the bowsprit.[1] Lapse of time has cast a romantic and semi-mythologic glamor around these de
"Those late troubles raised there by that ungrateful Villaine Richard Ingle."--Ibid., p. 270.
"I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."--Jefferson, Works, Vol. III, p. 105.
Fund-Publication, No. 19
CAPTAIN RICHARD INGLE,
The Maryland "Pirate and Rebel,"
1642-1653.
[Illustration]
A Paper read before the Maryland Historical Society,
May 12th, 1884,
BY
EDWARD INGLE, A. B.
BALTIMORE. 1884.
PEABODY PUBLICATION FUND.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION.
1884-5.
HENRY STOCKBRIDGE, JOHN W. M. LEE, BRADLEY T. JOHNSON.
PRINTED BY JOHN MURPHY & CO. PRINTERS TO THE MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY, BALTIMORE, 1884.
CAPTAIN RICHARD INGLE,
THE MARYLAND "PIRATE AND REBEL."
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the American colonies, from Massachusetts to South Carolina, were at intervals subject to visitations of pirates, who were wont to appear suddenly upon the coasts, to pillage a settlement or attack trading vessels and as suddenly to take flight to their strongholds. Captain Kidd was long celebrated in prose and verse, and only within a few years have credulous people ceased to seek his buried treasures. The arch-villain, Blackbeard, was a terror to Virginians and Carolinians until Spotswood, of "Horseshoe" fame, took the matter in hand, and sent after him lieutenant Maynard, who, slaying the pirate in hand to hand conflict, returned with his head at the bowsprit.[1] Lapse of time has cast a romantic and semi-mythologic glamor around these de
