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Title: The pirates of the New England coast, 1630-1730

Author: George Francis Dow

John Henry Edmonds

Author of introduction, etc.: Ernest H. Pentecost

Release date: February 3, 2025 [eBook #75282]

Language: English

Original publication: Salem, Mass: Marine Research Society, 1923

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VIEW OF THE HARBOR AND TOWN OF BOSTON IN 1723
From an engraving in the British Museum after a drawing by William Burgis

THE
PIRATES
OF THE
NEW ENGLAND
COAST
1630–1730

By
GEORGE FRANCIS DOW

Curator of the Society for the Preservation of
New England Antiquities

and

JOHN HENRY EDMONDS

Massachusetts State Archivist

Introduction by
CAPT. ERNEST H. PENTECOST, R.N.R.

Publisher's Colophon

MARINE RESEARCH SOCIETY
SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS

1923

PUBLICATION NUMBER TWO
OF THE
MARINE RESEARCH SOCIETY
SALEM, MASS.

COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY
THE MARINE RESEARCH SOCIETY

PRINTED IN
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BY THE JORDAN & MORE PRESS
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

THIS VOLUME
IS DEDICATED TO THE
MARINERS AND MERCHANTS OF
NEW ENGLAND WHO SUFFERED
LOSS OF LIFE OR PROPERTY
AT THE HANDS OF
PIRATES