CHAP. III.
of
Captain Teach,
alias Black-beard.
Edward Teach was a Briſtol Man born, but had ſailed ſome Time out of Jamaica in Privateers, in the late French War; yet tho’ he had often diſtinguiſhed himſelf for his uncommon Boldneſs and perſonal Courage, he was never raiſed to any Command, till he went a-pyrating, which I think was at the latter End of the Year 1716, when Captain Benjamin Hornigold put him into a Sloop that he had made Prize of, and with whom he continued in Conſortſhip till a little while before Hornigold ſurrendered.
In the Spring of the Year 1717, Teach and Hornigold ſailed from Providence, for the Main of America, and took in their Way a Billop from the Havana, with 120 Barrels of Flower, as alſo a Sloop from Bermuda, Thurbar Maſter, from whom they took only ſome Gallons of Wine, and then let him go; and a Ship from Madera to South-Carolina, out of which they got Plunder to a conſiderable Value.
After cleaning on the Coaſt of Virginia, they returned to the Weſt-Indies, and in the Latitude of 24, made Prize of a large French Guiney Man,
