CHAP. VII.
of
Captain John Rackam,
And his Crew.
This John Rackam, as has been mentioned in the laſt Chapter, was Quarter-Maſter to Vane’s Company, till they were divided, and Vane turned out for refuſing to board and fight the French Man of War; then Rackam was voted Captain of that Diviſion that remained in the Brigantine. The 24th of November 1718, was the firſt Day of his Command, and his firſt Cruize was among the Caribbee Iſlands, where he took and plunder’d ſeveral Veſſels.
We have already taken Notice, that when Captain Woodes Rogers went to the Iſland of Providence, with the King’s Pardon to ſuch as ſhould ſurrender, this Brigantine, which Rackam now commanded, made its Eſcape, thro’ another Paſſage, bidding Defiance to Mercy.
To Windward of Jamaica, a Madera Man fell into the Pyrates Way, which they detained two or three Days, till they had made their Market out of her, and then gave her back to the Maſter, and permitted one Hoſea Tiſdell, a Tavern-Keeper at Jamaica, who had been pick’d up in one of their
