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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
Blackbeard decided his plan for his retirement would work better with the NC Governor--Charles Eden--than with the SC one--Robert Johnson. His actions with plundering at least eight ships near Charleston would clash with political connections of the SC Governor even if Eden had been appointed by the Court of Queen Anne. It would be easier to broker with the NC Governor for a good deal under the King's September 5, 1717 Proclamation of Pardons for Pirates giving up their wicked ways . In other words, the SC Governor had too much crow to digest because of Blackbeard's actions in Charleston. He had stepped on a hornet's nest through this blockade and the good citizens of Charleston were looking for someone to sting. They would get a perfect target for their revenge in Major Stede Bonnet after Blackbeard's upcoming treachery at Beaufort Inlet, NC. Robert Johnson (governor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia North Carolina History Project : Charles Eden (1673-1722) Teach's Hole Exhibit - Stede Bonnet |
Blackbeard headed for his chosen
venue of NC to turn himself into Governor Charles Eden. First though he deliberately ran his own ship
The Queen Anne's Revenge and had his pilot Israel Hands run another sloop
The Adventure aground. Not wanting to share plunder nor
glory he marooned 25 men in Beaufort Inlet after holding them at gunpoint and removing arms and money from them. He then culled his pirate crew even further by escaping with a few others in the sloop he had secretly moved most of his booty to earlier. He had even tricked Stede Bonnet into going to get a pardon while lying to him about saving some of the pirate loot for him. Blackbeard gave up the
active life of a pirate and settled in Bath Town, NC in a home across from the NC Governor Eden. He even took a 14th wife. He could see himself with wife, more children, and close
cousins in Bath Town. If only, though, the twenty men he brought with him could also give up the pirate's life. They could not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath,_North_Carolina http://www.qaronline.org/History/StoryofBlackbeard.aspx