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Matt McLaine lives in the South Carolina Lowcountry, less than an hour from where Blackbeard once blockaded Charles Towne harbor, and has fished the same Edisto River where reluctant pirate Charles Yeats once anchored his ship while waiting for a pardon from the Governor. He’s been writing about the Golden Age of Piracy since early 2017 when he wrote the first of his Wikipedia pirate articles. It quickly became a fascination which grew into two books (with more in progress), an academic journal article, interviews, and nearly 200 Wikipedia entries.
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Hi Matt! Good to see you here. Next thing you know, you're going to be reenacting...
(This is where I got my start.)
Matt keeps extensive records and creates or edits the entries of the lesser known pirates on Wiki. (And, unlike parts of the entries on the better known pirates on Wiki , provides reliable references.)
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Bottom left corner, 1711, by Peter Schenk, flag of "Roovers": https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/NG-1048 or https://alteamaps.uk/view_product.php?prod_id=PROD100004366 or https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/41185/early-appearance-of-the-flag-of-new-england-schouw-park-a-schenk or https://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/flagchart-schenk-1711 Similar flags appeared in other nautical flag compilations like Schenk's, sometimes with the wreath on the skull and sometimes without; here's one from 1836 (bottom right as "Rovers"): https://collection.maas.museum/object/434506. Basil Lubbock's "Blackwall Frigates" from 1922 just labels this flag "1746" with no name. Same with 1923's “Piracy in the West Indies and its suppression” by Francis Bradlee. In 1933 Charles Grey's "Pirates of the Eastern Seas" labels this one "Moody." In 1953 Patrick Pringle's “Jolly Roger” labels it "Christopher Moody". This becomes the standard going forward, though of course until the 20th century it was never assigned to Moody or anyone else and no witnesses reported any Golden Age vessels flying it.