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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
On board the Adventure, two of Blackbeard's drinking buddies were trying to sleep off weeks of partying but were awakened by the cannon and pistol blasts between intermittent sleep. They got wind of Black Caesar's intention of lighting up the sloop's powder supply and drunkenly working together managed to tackle the hardly dainty Caesar and then sat on him until Maynard's men could help them restrain the giant. Unfortunately, one of the Royal Naval men while on The Adventure wearing some of the pirate souvenirs was shot by another sailor from the Ranger whose men had finally managed to get it dislodged from the sandbar. So strum the hands of fate and acted as thief on Blackbeard's grand design. Legend had it that Blackbeard had one last trick to play about how his myth would later be governed. When they cut off his head they eventually threw his body overboard where it proceeded to swim around the Jane three times and then sank in Orcacoke Inlet. Blackbeard Legends - Myths and Facts about Blackbeard
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Virginia Lt. Governor Alexander Spotswood had given the men he had sent to hunt down Blackbeard strict instructions to look for any documents showing that the notorious pirate had
clout over NC Governor Charles Eden. Spotswood knew his expedition into North Carolina was illegal and was trying to find some evidence to bolster his case when the Crown's representatives came asking tough questions. His men while searching on board
the Adventure found a letter written by Secretary of the Colony of NC, Tobias Knight, to Blackbeard under a
quilt that would make quite a
donkey of Mr. Knight in the eyes of the Crown but would hardly have said to have
proven the need for Spotswood's invasion of another colony.
Colonel Thomas Powell's letter about the Spotswood invasion to Governor Charles Eden.
Documenting the American South: Colonial and State Records of North Carolina