Pirates on the Chesapeake: Being a True History of Pirates, Picaroons, and Raiders on the Chesapeake Bay, 1610-1807

A 200-year history of pirates, picaroons, and sea rovers in the Chesapeake Bay region that begins with the Virginia colony in 1609 and ends with the peaceful resolution of the Othello affair in 1807.

A dazzling array of swashbuckling pirates, picaroons, and sea rovers are pitted against the often feckless representatives of an outpost government authority in the Chesapeake Bay region. It is an exciting and dramatic two hundred-year history that begins grimly with the “starving time” in the...